Every night at 7 pm, we open our windows wide, clap and hoot and holler for the folks who continue to put their lives at risk, working in hospitals, acting as first responders, or even just manning grocery stores and drug stores. It’s our virtual parade for people that are doing so much for those …
I’ve been thinking lately about the Jared Diamond book that I read last year, Upheaval. In this book, he analyzes the resilience of several nations in the face of crisis, through a lens based on characteristics that describe how people respond to personal crisis. Here is the lens he came up with: National consensus that …
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Sometimes I am frightened by a feeling of scarcity. Sometimes it is a scarcity of food or drink. We order pizza and I eat two slices – more than enough pizza for a meal – but then my husband takes a third slice and something inside me says, “If you don’t have another slice, he’ll …
Yesterday I had brunch with some friends. One of them brought along a bag of books that he had cleaned out of his shelves and he thought might appeal to us, in the hopes that we would take them home with us, and he wouldn’t have to carry them home through the rain and up …
I have been thinking this morning about Orpheus. Orpheus is, I believe, the ancient Greek musician whose beloved wife died. Orpheus loved her so much that he journeyed to hell. There he so moved Hades – the god of hell – with the beauty of his music, that Hades allowed Orpheus to lead his wife …
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