In POND- the Principles of  Narrative Design, We always teach that who you are is WHERE you are.

And where you are is what you are IN BETWEEN. B is B because its between A and C. 

And where we are is always in the middle, between where we started out and where we hope to end up.

Apply that to the Presidential Elections, our Case Study- or our case in point and ask the locatory questions and note the difference in energies that each begins to map out.

  • Are we in between the Low point of Trump support over COVID and the economic challenges and a revival by October?
  • Are we in between the Steady point of Biden’s candidature and his growing unambiguous ascendancy?
  • Are we in between Trump’s Low point of being overwhelming with all the crises and the total despair and disarray of an administration that has run out of ideas
  • Are we in between Trumps Last Stand and a GOP internal coup with the 25th amendment applied?

When any of those co-ordinates shift, you realize that even if you are doing the same thing,  you are no longer in the same story. We can also apply this to COVID19. If we were still in the middle between a deadly pandemic outbreak and the means to control and end it, we would experience hope. We are on the way to a vaccine.

But if now, as it seems, we are in between the pandemic being largely controlled and a vaster level of infection and death because we were leadersless and careless, then we are in big trouble.

We might not have shifted where we are, but the co-ordinates have, and that makes all the difference. Things will get worse before they get worse, as the Irish optimist used to say.