Tag: #COVID
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Commerce In Action
in: Photography
Our May Camera Club assignment was to tell a little story in two pictures about “commerce in action”. I decided to play a little word game. The first shot shows commerce being transacted, the second shows the impact of the pandemic.
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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…
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Uncertainty
I have come to see uncertainty as a cousin of frailty. As the pandemic emerged the danger it presented was unclear, whether it was simply on the scale of the flu or something more, it was unclear how it spread, whether by touch or by air, and how we might protect ourselves. This lack of…
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Frailty
“Flight 704 from Chicago to Los Angeles will be cancelled unless there is a passenger who can provide the flight crew with a rubber band” — Urban myth announcement at Chicago O’Hare *** I had not thought too deeply about the term vigilance, but as it has emerged as one of the more popular words during…