In these days of such challenge and insecurity, even those who seemed to step up to the distress and disruption of the Covid pandemic in the early days of March and April have, with the continued assault of dysfunctional politics and social unrest, descended into a continuum from torpor to various grades of depression and anxiety. Is the pandemic getting bet ter or worse? Will our democracy survive or fail? Are all the divides in our society reparable or permanent? Where
