Hello All, What a difference a year makes! I am so grateful that we appear to have turned the corner on this pandemic. I know we will still have ups and downs – new variants will continue to appear (it is just the nature of bugs, they mutate to stay alive – so now the delta variant has entered the scene) – we still have to take care of our younger citizens with their vaccines. But some sense of normalcy has returned. Well, except that I still I am a creature of the new habits I developed this year! I still am having trouble giving up my mask. If it…

Hello All, Do you wonder sometimes when we lost our wonder? In other words, when did our desire to be curious or to know something disappear or get minimized, and in turn, limited our ability to be surprised, awed, astonished. When did our imagination take flight? Do you think it is age? Do you think we just forget to laugh daily, even though laughter has remarkable restorative factors? Do you think we have become so serious that the silly can’t survive? I don’t know the answer, but I do know when I get my wonder back – when I spend my time with our great-nieces! G. K. Chesterton, English writer and philosopher said…