Over the last few months, I have been making an attempt to create a counternarrative to 2020. One thing after another has made this quite a challenging year. As I look back over the last 11 months through a different lens, I then begin to see things much clearer. The clarity of it all initially hit me like a ton of bricks when my wife and I traveled to Belle Isle and viewed the Covid-19 memorial. Watching the news and listening to social media can provide some information, but to see those names and faces helped us to reflect in a much different way.

My first thought is that I am than...