The pandemic of 2020 - 2021 has been significant for many reasons. Not only are we experiencing the continued COVD-19 pandemic, but we have seen tectonic shifts in our political, social, and cultural lives. These events have brought out the best and the worst in many. Patterns of life, business, and education have been disrupted, and this disruption has caused many to lose hope, turn inward, and become cynical.
When it became apparent that I, and many others, would be working from home for an extended period, I took it upon myself to send out a periodic email message to friends and colleagues. I started these email
messages simply as a means to help give people hope; to let them recapture some of their basic humanity and dignity and maybe, in the process, come to appreciate the humanity and dignity of others. These messages span a year of sheltering in place. They are by no means a cure for all the ills of society. They are meant to act as a prism through which thoughts and feelings may pass through and emerge as something
more vibrant, more meaningful, on which to build a future.