Making sense of it all is hardly easy, but with this special issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine, we set out to try. It could be funny or sad, of global proportions or right in their own backyard. While we waited excitedly for the essays and poems and photos and illustrations to pour in, we here on the staff got to work interviewing Hopkins thinkers from a wide variety of disciplines and departments. Just as we'd hoped, each essayist, poet, photographer, illustrator, and thinker came at the question from a very different angle. Most of the straws fell into these areas of concern.
Chances are they'll lead to future stories.
I hope you'll spend some time with the word-collage of essays, pictures, poems, and interviews that comprise this special issue. By taking a realistic look at where the world is now, perhaps we can get a clearer sense of how we ought to be moving ahead. Your thoughts might well appear in a future issue. The duo waited for a sunny afternoon, then headed for a field about a block from their home, in North Beach, Maryland. We both were having a good time.