William Falk, editor-in-chief of The Week, wrote in the April 24 issue of the magazine about the people he encountered on a bike ride.
One woman jogger smiled at me, a stranger, with such genuine warmth I was startled. “Hi,” she called out as I rolled by, in recognition of our shared predicament: escaped prisoners trying to wring some joy from a spring day. How can we feel gratitude at this dark time, amid a planetwide crisis unlike any in our lifetimes”? How can we not? Nothing, we’ve been reminded, is guaranteed. Nothing should be taken for granted.”
