Fear (Not?)

     
































Instead of relaxing in the rhythm of the elliptical machine at the rec center, I’m tightening up from scenes flashing on the TVs ahead of me. On one suspended monitor, white supremacists and neo Nazis clash with anti-protesters. On another, carnage in Barcelona and saber rattling between the U.S. and North Korea. Back to the first TV: the U.S. opioid epidemic; police violence; health care insurance in tatters. Has the world gone mad?
     I plug in my music to drown out the news, an...