It used to be that every September 12 we would be thinking about the nearly 3,000 lives lost on September 11, 2001. Now we are losing that many people every few days to COVID, with no way of knowing when it will end or when and how we will find a way to memorialize all the people lost. For now, I am deeply happy that two of the most talented people I have ever known have been hospitalized with this terrible virus and survived. My dear friend and colleague Phyllis McEwen taught me so much about Zora Neale Hurston in our years of working together, and is now serving as advisor to the Hurston chapter of my next book, Florida Journeys. Bob Devin Jones, wonderful neighbor and community arts host, portrayed Langston Hughes to Phyllis's Zora in the Harlem Renaissance Chautauqua sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council. Those were the days!
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