For Freep columnist, Detroit is nirvana

It's not that crazy to feel a little of the nirvana here in Detroit. There are some great things mixed in with our very real problems. Detroit Free Press columnist Stephen Henderson points this out.

Excerpt from the Detroit Free Press:

I grew up a stone's throw from where we live now, but the river was a non-entity for me. It was dirty and industrial. If you wanted to play, it was the last place you thought of.

Now the river is a park from one side of the RenCen to the other, and east almost to Belle Isle.

For my kids, it will be the root from which a sprawling, vibrant view of Detroit grows.

As a newspaper editor, as someone who has spent years in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, my brow tenses at the thought of Detroit's uncountable problems. The reasons people leave. The budget mess at City Hall. The city's beleaguered children.

But as a dad, I get to see this city through much more optimistic eyes, to appreciate the treasures, to see the Detroit of possibilities and fun.

I get to feel a little of the nirvana.

Read the entire article here.