Year: 2020

A new day brings new challenges, opportunities and joys. Excitement spawns from each of these ingredients. The magnolia is a couple weeks late blooming this year. Might it be due to the colder than usual weather? The pandemic? Better late than never.

In the last week or so, I feel my mood has improved. The anticipation of reaching the end of the current phase of the pandemic — the lock down — has flowered into being witness to the tangible activities of things opening up. The earlier period was marked by frustration, the understanding that the lock…

Many things are opaque, leaving how and why they work unclear at best. Why, for example, has the US stock market recovered nearly 20% in the last month even though we remain under the cloud of a pandemic with no clear end in sight, the economy is shut down put into a coma, tens of…