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OPINION EXCHANGE | What I don't talk about when I talk about graduation
Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• Three years ago, I wrote a dreamy love letter to downtown Minneapolis in pandemic conditions that was published by Star Tribune Opinion ("What I don't talk about when I talk about the pandemic," June 2021). At that time, I was an office coordinator commuting into downtown daily.
What I Don’t Talk About When I Talk About Anne Frank
Anne Frank; Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons When I was nine years old, I became absorbed in the world of Anne Frank. That year, my Catholic mother pressed Anne’s diary into my hands with the same sweet urgency with which Anne recorded Edith Frank pressing a prayer book into her own, stating: “Read this.” Years later, a secondary school classmate borrowed my copy. In transit, she asked why it was so beat up.
OPINION EXCHANGE | What I don't talk about when I talk about the pandemic
I would not wish a global pandemic on anyone. And yet. I have been an office coordinator in downtown Minneapolis since summer 2018. At the risk of sounding tone-deaf, spring 2020's turn of events has changed life for the better. Before, life was a haze of hoops to jump through and lists to lean into. Up at 6:05 a.m. Home at 6:05 p.m. with no stops. Averaging six hours of sleep a night. I was somewhat adjusted to the rat race; however, as a byproduct, I had little to no empathy.
And Yet - Image Journal
I was going to meet Miep Gies. I was going to meet Katie Couric. Life looks different now from the way that I thought it would then, at age nine. And yet here I am. There was the New York City of my dreams. My mother’s mother was from Philadelphia, and my mother has fond memories of driving through the city after visiting relatives in PA. There was the Today show of my dreams. My mother’s mother, my mother, and her sisters visited its set in the 1990s. Live from Studio 1A, in Rockefeller Plaza.
And Yet - Image Journal
I was going to meet Miep Gies. I was going to meet Katie Couric. Life looks different now from the way that I thought it would then, at age nine. And yet here I am. There was the New York City of my dreams. My mother’s mother was from Philadelphia, and my mother has fond memories of driving through the city after visiting relatives in PA. There was the Today show of my dreams. My mother’s mother, my mother, and her sisters visited its set in the 1990s. Live from Studio 1A, in Rockefeller Plaza.
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