Threadshots day 14: Shipping News : Annie Proulx and Amazon.

Your Order Has Shipped

“Your Order has Shipped” used to be a daily or at least a frequent experience as an Amazon Prime member. The coronavirus has changed all that and while I can surely wait for an item it has also impacted my need to “buy” it. It is becomes clear to me that the immediacy of the arrival perhaps meant more than the item itself?

Curiouser and curiouser, said she.

Annie Proulx wrote the novel “The Shipping News” which won Yhe Pulitzer Prize in 1993 and HAS stood the test of time (not the movie, though) and does deliver year after year and whose stark beauty and truth telling is not impacted by COCID 19.