One year ago today, I was baking in the heat in Nathan Philips Square. As I write this, just before noon, I’m thinking back to the same time last year. Nothing was happening. I mean, NOTHING. People were starting to wilt from the heat, and it was quiet. Nothing was happening on the stage. There were so many people in the area, cell towers were overloaded, so you couldn’t get a signal to send a text or find out what was going on in the rest of the world.
It was one of the longest days of my life.