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Panicked after the inauguration, I read and wrote in my journal for many hours of the tropical nights at my son’s house on a small island in the South China Sea. So peaceful. My mind and soul were not at all peaceful though: picking up news of what began happening the minute Donald Trump took office and reading histories of France, UK, Germany, Japan, and US in the 1930s as catastrophe approached…. Read More
We are the lucky ones. How often do you hear old people say that? But hey, it’s all in the timing, isn’t it? We had the good fortune to live our adult lives, mostly to completion, in a relatively peaceful and prosperous part of the world. Of course, if we were members of the favored race and favored gender in these parts, we were even luckier, but that’s another less positive story…. Read More