It was a bit of a draining week. Take all of the normal challenges, throw them into the pressure cooker of COVID, and you have a recipe for disaster. It was also difficult not to pay attention to the continued insanity in the news. Just like passing an accident on the highway, your curiosity always forces you to take just a brief glance over to see the carnage. Sometimes it is a relatively harmless fender bender. Other times you can only hope that everyone survived. This was one of those weeks that feels more like the latter.

There is plenty of fresh material for me to write about this week. However, I have decided to take a brief break. Maintaining an optimistic attitude sometimes takes a significant amount of energy. I have decided to recharge this weekend.

Just like the last minute of CBS’s “Sunday Morning” that is dedicated to some Zen-like scene from nature, I am just going to leave you with this picture from a sunrise over Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. I find the name of these places, set aside for the protection of our natural resources, quite ironic. More often than not, it is we humans who seek these spaces when in need of sanctuary. Just imagine the familiar trumpet theme as we fade to next week…