As I sat trying to write this blog in my apartment, at 4:45 p.m. on...what day is it?... during the social lockdown (no small feat in a place like Manhattan where being aggressively social is practically a clause in everyone’s lease) at the onslaught of the never-seen-before, life-changing Covid-19 pandemic, I gazed blankly out my window. My Chelsea streetscape came into focus and I realized, startled, that suddenly the as-yet barren wintertime trees had real buds on them. Ev