Returning to “normal” is the most terrifying thing about COVID-19

Trash by the sacred Annishenabek Mounds by the Grand River in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2018. Photo by yours truly.

I’ve been working on this piece for weeks now. I started and canned it twice — something I haven’t done since my rookie blogging days.

This is a difficult piece to write, not only because I know it’s going to be unpopular. But because I know a lot of people aren’t going to understand what I’m saying at all.