Fragility

Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

Human life is always fragile, and the past few months have attuned us to that. Things are going along in an unremarkable way, and then we or someone we love or know (or a friend loves and knows) dies of a disease we were only dimly aware of six months ago. New lives are stalled because weddings can’t go on. Big changes are delayed, if not canceled, because the comp...