One Day
Amy Stewart’s new series One Day celebrates humans’ resilience, our capacity to endure adversity, and to come out the other side of a challenge stronger and more unified. Months after the pandemic began, we are still isolated from one another, wondering if our lives will ever return to “normal.” A year feels like a long time; our old lives seem distant and strange. At times, our society feels fractured, irreparable. But Stewart has seen how individuals heal. She knows that families and communities can come together after division. Throughout the pandemic, Stewart has observed large and small kindnesses among friends and strangers, businesses and governments. At moments of crisis, she remembers such kindness and remains confident that we will emerge from the pandemic armed with the knowledge and experience that will make everyone’s future smoother.
The thin lines of One Day slice along and through swaths of light and dark. These contoured shapes occasionally roll into sharp bends: the crisis points that, amid the totality of our whole lives, will eventually seem small—subtle peaks that have been overcome. We will always encounter difficulty in our lives but, as Stewart’s series reminds us, the good feelings that connect us across hardship will remain, even once the hard times have become a distant memory.