“Burn not your house to scare away the mouse.”   English proverb

“Summertime and the living is easy.”  To quote the words of  the song “Summertime” from the play Porgy and Bess.  “Fish are jumping and the cotton is high.  Your Momma’s rich and your Daddy’s good lookin, so hush little baby don’t you cry”.  Really?  You wouldn’t know it from the angst going around in society right now.  Unfortunately, my Momma wasn’t rich but my Daddy was good looking.  From the sounds of it though an awful lot of us are crying.  Couldn’t we just plunk ourselves down in the cool movie theater and pig out on iced drinks and popcorn for the next several years until this hard rock Pluto transit passes.  Would that we could.

The challenge will be, though, for us to carry ourselves with honor through these tumultuous times.  This should be our main motivation …