One year ago today, the world moved both in slow motion and hyperspeed all at once. I woke up, planning to watch the certification of the election for the first time in my life. I had never watched it before, as it seemed so routine, so mundane - a procedural necessity. But last year, it felt important. The world was too shaky, too uncertain, and too many things that I had accepted as impossibilities had already happened. I needed to see it with my own eyes - it didn’t feel like a foregone conclusion.