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A kaleidoscopic moment shapes a new mosaic, as forces conspire to create a social new order

Michael Shear - January 25, 2021

Children, inescapably, have a fascination with kaleidoscopes. They don’t need to know that the kaleidoscope was invented in 1816 by Sir David Brewster or...

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The just society and knowledge economy now towering on the post-pandemic horizon

Brett A. Hurt - January 8, 2021

In the classical Greek myth, Pandora opened her infamous box, releasing death, destruction, and untold suffering into the world, much like a virus called...

The Renewal Series

As the fog at last lifts, the future begins to arrive much sooner than we ever expected

Brett A. Hurt - January 7, 2021

Acceptance is not surrender. That idea seems such a clear aphorism. Accepting what we cannot change and summoning the courage to change what we can...

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As the pandemic becomes more dire, a fog of sorrow coils around life amid COVID-19

Brett A. Hurt - January 6, 2021

If the fear phase of my pandemic journey fused suddenly, and if the state of euphoria came as the crest of a wave, the...

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Spotting the new horizon after weeks of ‘Dead Reckoning’ through the pandemic storm

Brett A. Hurt - January 5, 2021

It was the eve of the last day in April, the end of the first quarter of our fiscal year and there was really...

The Renewal Series

A new flu-like virus distant, abstract and then suddenly… ‘This is real, this is bad’

Brett A. Hurt - January 4, 2021

It was late in the afternoon of March 6. A month or so of headlines had focused on this strange new virus emerging in...