In the summer of 2020, when a pandemic gripped the globe and civil unrest filled city streets and dread clouded the air like a low-hanging fog, Dan O’Conor would get up every morning, drive to a parking lot at Montrose Beach and stick a hand-scrawled sign inside his windshield: WENT TO JUMP IN THE LAKE. The sign was to keep his car from getting towed. The lake was to keep his sanity. Both …
Heidi Stevens: His wife told him to jump in the lake. More than 4 years later, he still is. ‘There’s just a lot of joy in jumping in the water’
