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Tag: #COVID

  • Rebalancing: Clarifying Priorities

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    Rebalancing: Clarifying Priorities

    The daily political transactions executed in response to the pandemic vary widely by country, but trying to estimate where it all goes, where it takes us is another story. Richard Haass submits that these events won’t reshape history, but rather they will accelerate existing trends. While it is not clear to me what the difference…

  • The Blur of Days

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    The Blur of Days

    As the days go by, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish among them. They simply merge together into an incoherent blur.

  • Eggs

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    Eggs

    As our period of quarantine continues, the need to fill time with something other than sleep and TV, elevates activities that I previously might have considered trivial and mundane to be profound and extraordinary. Today I look at boiling eggs. I decided I wanted to know exactly how to make hard boiled eggs to the…

  • Apprenticeship

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    Apprenticeship

    I have on occasion thought about learning and in particular the co-development of the mental and motor skills necessary to complete a task. What comes to mind are the 18th – 19th century craftsmen who made figurines. A master might have started off as a youth with the trivial tasks of the process, such as…

  • 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…