The Wall of Worries

December 2, 2021

Today’s curse is that everyone is anchored to a perpetual news cycle fed into smartphones or on TV in the form of a news “crawl” warning of crisis, disaster, or planetary peril. The bombardment is exhausting and this week a trifecta of calamity struck: a new COVID variant Omicron, a looming debt ceiling crisis, and the specter of more inflation. All hav…