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What Does The Future Hold For American Cities?
What might help the places we live, work, and play rebound in these uncertain times?
It’s been a little while since I published anything here on Medium dot com. A whole lot of tragedy, confusion, and, quite frankly, callous behavior has been on display across America these past few months (not to mention heroics, selflessness, and a little bit of hope), and I’ve been doing my best to process everything.
If you’ll allow me to get slightly personal for a moment, I can tell you that the COVID-19 pandemic has worn on my mental health. I am lucky and privileged in that I have been on furlough from work for the past twelve weeks, staying at home, out of harm’s way physically.
But the constant stream of sad and scary news has often reduced me to a ball of anxiety and fatalism, capable of accomplishing little more in a given day than bathing and napping. I worry about my loved ones and I hurt for those who have experienced terrible loss throughout this crisis.
I’ve also experienced moments of anger and rage, both at the national elected officials who have shown incompetence and indifference at seemingly every turn, and at the situation in general, the amount of needless suffering that has swept the globe.
