Yearning to Breathe Free - A Community Journal of 2020

An anthology of works first published in the Benicia Herald between April 1 and November 1, 2020. This volume deals with the whole range of issues society faced in that time: pandemic woes, masking, the disturbances caused by the death of George Floyd, and the entire gamut of a stunningly different year.



"How did we make sense of being scared, isolated, wanting to fix what was wrong in 2020? Challenged at every level and in every corner, our community found in these writings a consistently dependable place to calm our fears, to renew our hope and courage."



-Elizabeth Patterson, Mayor of Benicia, 2014-2020