Same!

I also believe Covid became the worldwide pandemic that it did because by 2020, the cracks in institutional trust had begun to show and it became harder to enact measures to keep spread down. The govts and administrations we had at hand in 2020 didn’t help, either—also a result of those trends.

Highly recommend Bees Kneads if you haven’t tried her stuff yet! We got a roasted garlic focaccia from her last week at the Marlborough market, and it was phenomenal.

I was not a Hillary supporter in the primary. But some of Bernie’s supporters’ behaviors were abhorrent back then and I’m not surprised by this week’s misogynistic takes.

Thanks to your posts yesterday, I understood what everyone was talking about at the hardware store today. There is certainly a lot of shared anger around New England today 😅

Yesss. Somewhere in ‘23, as the director of data storytelling for my org, I realized we should walk back dependency on the newest material hardship stats b/c a few percentage points of change meant little IRL. Nowadays, we lead with values and vision, and I wish we’d be doing this all along.