Between Berlin and Berlin

"just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip..."

Landwehrkanal, Berlin, 2021

Before the pandemic, I learned not to speak with any sort of certainty about the future. This was hard won knowledge, which is to say, I gained it through the metaphorical equivalent of repeatedly banging my head into a window after thinking it was just air. I had to come back to the US from Berlin on October 14th, 2018 for fa…