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Bridging Newsletter: Central Eastside News

Portland…Where are We?… Forward? Backward? Wallowing?

Recently I walked up to my trusty (old) and beloved car parked in a nice eastside
neighborhood and knew something was amiss spotting splatters of broken glass
on the sidewalk. Looking in the shattered into pieces passenger window the
interior looked like it was slammed into a big washer on the spin cycle. A decent
after-market car stereo ripped from the console: dirt everywhere then miscellaneous items missing like golf clubs (needed new ones anyhow). The clincher was I went to start the car…nothing. I knew what has happened when I lifted the hood and saw a new battery missing. Ugh…Portland! This sent me on a day long mental exercise about our great but very wounded city that shook my long-term positive commitment to making things better. I did not capitulate to this rabbit hole of negative thinking but it did make me wonder…”Where are We?”.

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