How Do You Rise From The Ruins?
Acknowledge that whatever happens, life goes on.
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6 min readJun 11, 2020
What happens to a city after a battle or tragedy, after the dust settles? Right now, I’m thinking about how cities that were absolutely destroyed by carnage — Berlin, Stalingrad, Hiroshima, recovered.
In the summer of 2017, I went to Hiroshima to visit for a day while I was working in a chemistry lab in…