Tag: 2022-02 Now is the Winter
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Now is the Winter
Now is the winter of our discontent… William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act-I, Scene-I, Line 1 This scourge has carried on for two years, through what feels like a never-ending cycle of lockdowns and isolation, through information wars spawned from within and without, leaving us with uncertainty and doubt. Many are ready to give up. Nearly…
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Power to the People
This information war we are currently experiencing, as part of Putin’s incursion, whose combatants are the various governments, news agencies, pundits, etc. is a battle for public opinion. The military assets are [factual] information, dis-information and censorship. While it may be sad to think that the one with the most “likes” wins, there is a…
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The Big Hope
I’m finding it trying to follow the news of this “Putin’s War”. It’s not just the carnage and savagery we are able to witness each day, each hour, each minute, but it has provoked an immediacy, a visceral connection by putting images of the present to the stories of the past told by my parents…
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Recrudescence
It is the recurrence of this undesirable condition; becoming raw again. Two years ago this week we returned from Costa Rica only to enter a two-week lockdown a few days later. It was widely accepted that if we all stayed home, the spread of the virus would be nipped in the bud … regardless of…
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Balance
Balance is a state of equality, a system in balance is an optimization of sometimes just two parts, but often among many, gently positioned such that no one element supersedes any of the others. Ideally the elements are positioned so that minor shifts in one can be accommodated and adjusted to by the others. How…