It Shouldn’t Take a Disaster for Us To Recognize a Disaster
It needed to come to this for millions of people to even begin to wake up?
Last night I was having a Face Time conversation with a friend.
In our sleeplessness and anxiety we were debriefing the last few simply unfathomable days:
the alarming acceleration of the virus,
the shocking waves of cancellations and shutdowns,
the wholesale closing of public school systems,
the terrifying sight of empty grocery store shelves,
the dominoes of travel restrictions and airport chaos,
the daily national financial collapses, the business closings, the job losses,
the complete panic seeping into every crevice of our nation,
the strange isolation of people physically separated from one another,
the endless, sprawling pathways of thought leading to so many future unknowns.
At one moment, my friend paused and said with relief, “Well, the only bright spot is, maybe Trump is finally going to be gone. Maybe seeing him completely fail and be exposed in this pandemic is enough for some people to…
