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THAT THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT. by Bill Russell MY HOPE FOR AMERICA: THAT THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT. By Bill Russell THE BOSTON GLOBE | JUNE 21, 2020 FOR THOSE STRIVING TO SAVE LIVES FOR THOSE KEEPING US GOING FOR THOSE FIGHTING FOR A BETTER FUTURE THANK YOU JUNE 21, 2020 1 We believe Massachusetts General Hospital Brigham and Women’s Hospital in each Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Community Physicians Organization other. Cooley Dickinson Hospital HealthCare at Home And the results Martha’s Vineyard Hospital are unbelievable. Massachusetts Eye and Ear McLean Hospital Thank you to all the people who continue to Nantucket Cottage Hospital come together from across our system, working wherever and however the situation Newton-Wellesley Hospital demands. We appreciate your commitment to North Shore Medical Center each other and to the people and communities Spaulding Rehabilitation Network we serve. And it is because of you that all our patients who need care, those with COVID-19 Urgent Care or other conditions, are being safely treated. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital JUNE 21, 2020 5 Comments 10 Perspective Bill Russell’s Hope for America 12 Your Week Ahead Drive-In Comedy Show, Organ Concert, and More 13 Love Letters Pictures from the Past 14 Style Watch On the Sunny Side 15 On the Block Kitchen Chessboard 16 Cooking Thai Pork Skewers for the Grill 18 Miss Conduct No Thanks 19 Dinner with Cupid 10 Game, Set, Rematch? 53 The Puzzle Page 54 Connections What My Father Believed On the Cover: From left: David L. Ryan; Erin Clark; Jessica Rinaldi; THE GRATITUDE PROJECT David L. Ryan; Jim Davis/Globe staff photographs bostonglobe.com/magazine 20 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @bostonglobemag For Essential Workers What About Summer? / June 14 Your original plans may have been canceled, but don’t Messages of appreciation for the people who are helping us give up on the season just yet. 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WE REGRET WE ARE UNABLE TO RESPOND ENSUES TOOLONG RUSSET 3 5 8 6 219 4 7 TO UNSOLICITED MANUSCRIPTS. THE MAGAZINE’S NAME (FORMERLY NEW SEEKS SPL INTS THEMS ENGLAND®) IS A TRADEMARK OF BOSTON GLOBE MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC. COPYRIGHT © 2020, BOSTON GLOBE MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC, 1 EXCHANGE PLACE, SUITE 201, BOSTON, MA 02109-2132. RUSSELL PHOTOGRAPH BY ELISE AMENDOLA/AP 4 THE BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE COMMENTS Power of Poetry 17) really hit home. The impact, made by the early similarities are numerous: Asian immigrants to the I was blown away by the I too am the son of Asian US. In this political climate beauty of Scott Harney’s immigrants; my father came especially, it’s a story worth images, and the clarity of to the United States in the retelling and remembering. his words and how lovingly ’50s, and did his PhD in Raj Melkote he selected them (“The Lost physics; he even got mar- Woburn Poems of Scott Harney,” May ried to my mom in 1959! He 10). I like that he was not too taught for several years Life After Lockdown afraid to show his soul when at two universities, and I’ve In his Perspective article he wrote. Now we can all en- run into many of his former (“The Lockdown Is Ending. joy his fabulous work thanks talented Scott was, and how tests (Connections, May 10). students who still remem- Is the Damage Worse Than to those who collected his his Charlestown roots and She was very unsure of this ber the jokes and puns he the Disease?” May 31), Tom writings and his publisher. his vision of life shaped his process—and I rewarded cracked in class. They too Keane rightly points out Nancy Katz love and friendships. her by getting in an accident settled in the Midwest. many of the knock-on ef- Belmont Franklin Gerechter on the way home from a Sadly, my father passed fects of COVID-19 that will Los Angeles successful driving exam. awayjustas2020dawned. have folks reeling for years. I was aware of Harney’s “Gun it,” Betsy. I look back and think of the Educational backslides and work as a poet as he oc- Lessons From the Road David Maynard timing as merciful—unlike lost economic opportuni- casionally read selected Thank you to Betsy Hollis, New Hampshire Huang’s father, we were ties are indeed devastating. segments to me. I was never Vereckey for reminding me able to have a proper funer- But in blaming “Draconian” sure why he did not make of wonderful memories of Importance of al. I want to thank Huang lockdown measures for more of an attempt to get my mom and her ability Immigrants’ Stories for telling his dad’s story. these damages, he ignores them published. However, to conquer her shortcom- The article by Gregory T. It’s very representative of so the fact that such socioeco- now [with their publica- ings, especially driving and Huang (“Love and Loss in many unheralded contribu- nomic inequities have long tion], people will see how helping us “kids” pass our the Age of COVID-19,” May tions, and the far-reaching been entrenched in our PHOTOGRAPH FROM GREGORY T. HUANG Behind every doctor, every nurse, everyhealthcareprofessional, arethosewhokeepusgoing. To essential workers everywhere: thank you for the difference you have made in this fight. We extend our deepest gratitude to you today and every day. JUNE 21, 2020 5 Our Experience Has Made the Difference society; COVID-19 has sim- premature reopening is Thank You ply shined an extra-bright even more obvious—not to to All our spotlight on them. If staying mention more severe and home for a few months can certainly “impossible to fix.” Healthcare wreak so much havoc on a Keane laments, “Teenagers Heroes! society...then something and college students are is wrong with that society. missing activities such as A return to normalcy is not dances, sports, and dating.” whatweneed.Weneed But what kind of society to build back better and deems this worse than old address the systemic faults people missing years of life? that left so many people As for inequality, premature vulnerable in the first place. reopening endangers poor Dani Murphy old people much more than Brooklyn, New York rich ones. 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