The crisis ended months ago. Why hasn't our group gone back?

Something happened. It was real — an illness, a death, a move, a year that broke apart. The group stopped meeting, stopped making, stopped showing up. No one argued with that. It was the right call. But the thing that was true in March is not true now, and no one has said so. Instead there is a kind of agreed-upon silence. Each person privately believes the others aren't ready. Each person is, in fact, describing themselves. This is not laziness. It is a room full of people waiting for permission that only they can give each other. The work was never the hard part. Saying "the reason is over" out loud — that's the hard part.