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Ariel Dorfman writes that Americans can take heart in the fact that Joe Biden is due to replace Donald Trump on Jan. 20, but the nation has to repair its democracy to make sure that there's no repeat of the abuses we've seen from the Trump administration.
The next month COVID-19 struck locally, later prompting shutdown and stay-at-home orders.
In May George Floyd s death while in Minneapolis Police custody sparked riots and protests nationwide, including peaceful demonstrations in the Valley. The decision not to charge Louisville, Kentucky officers in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor also led to demonstrations in the streets.
The Black Lives Matter movement was front and center and there were conversations about defunding and reforming police departments. There were also rallies to Back the Blue.
In September, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. Amy Coney Barrett filled her seat.
In October, President Trump was hospitalized with coronavirus. Senator Pat Toomey announced he would not run in 2022, ending his political career.
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Things don’t always turn out the way we expect, and that’s something we should keep in mind as we enter 2021.
It occurred to me as 2020 was winding down that I had started something during the initial pandemic-related lockdowns that I neglected to complete. Way back in March (a little more than nine months ago) I started making a daily social media post to encourage my friends to maintain a positive attitude while staying at home as much as possible.
Right around March 17, when Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Health ordered polling places closed for safety reasons on what would have been Election Day, they also ordered “non-essential businesses” closed and urged anyone who could work from home to do so.
Hari Nef on the art of Nash Glynn
Nash Glynn,
Self Portrait with One Foot Forward and One Hand Reaching Out, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 48 × 36 .
NASH GLYNN IS NUDE. Her body is pink and toned, perched in contrapposto at the edge of a classic American landscape. She’s a colossus. There’s green at her feet definitely grass, some pines maybe, a smear of amber near the horizon. The landscape submits to the Yves Klein blue of a sky she’s turning toward, collapsing longitude and altitude in the lean of her hip. Clouds bloom around and above her; they’re mauve, like the ones at sunset over a beach town. Except there’s no sun in the sky, no source of pink to crush purple in a white cloud. In the absence of sun, there is Nash Glynn, her body turning away. But her head is turned toward me. She looks down at me. She extends her hand. Or maybe she’s pointing. Just visible on the horizon is a rainbow.