Year: 2020

  • False Hope

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    False Hope

    We are well passed April 5th, the date that was once assumed to be when the schools would reopen; the date we assumed life would return to normal. The end in sight is behind us. Now there is no date. We are left in suspension. Hope is for the future; it cannot exist in the…

  • Closed

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    Closed

    Last Friday marked our fourth week in quarantine. Over this period, we watched many things around us shut down. Among the first was our gym, and as a result, we shifted our exercise program to home. But as the weather improves, on those days when it is above freezing, I supplement my in-door program with…

  • Munk Debates: The world after COVID-19, Malcolm Gladwell

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    Munk Debates: The world after COVID-19, Malcolm Gladwell

    In a conversation on what the world might look like after the end of the COVID crisis, Gladwell offered several insights and points of view.  In answering the question what can we learn from this [crisis], he talked  about what makes a system successful; why are some successful and others fail? Gladwell referred to research into…