I Was Injured By The January Insurrection

From Tyler Merber on Wikimedia

And I was nowhere near the Capitol.

2021 had the makings of a good year. Four days into it, I had moved into a new home and finally set up my office the way I wanted it. I’d just published an essay on Medium that I was moderately satisfied with. That evening I was walking through my new neighborhood, thinking about what I might write next. It seemed to me that there…