Cleveland = The Moon

Thanks to all who have left comments in the last few days ... I've meant to respond more personally to all of your thoughtful insights.

(I could say I've been busy with moving stuff, but the truth is, I've been busy indulging in Harry Potter fan fiction while pointedly avoiding dealing with moving stuff.)

The way I feel about Cleveland can be summed up in this quote from John F. Kennedy's 1962 speech at Rice University, in which he justifies the lunar mission:

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.