How many of us have turned away from the great American past time of “real life monopoly?” How many millions of us have snuck away from the table where the winners are taking away houses and building more hotels and sending other players to jail, never to pass go, never to collect another paycheck. We resigned from that game and we’re outside in the twilight of the American dream…

We are social creatures and contact with others is, in many ways, like the gravity that holds us in our orbit. Without those bonds we are like creatures on an alien planet with no gravitational pull, floating out into space. It’s asking a lot of us, but we must use our own capabilities to create a center that will hold.

We all could use a Samwise Gamgee right now. This global pandemic has plunged everyone into a place we could not have dreamt of a year ago. Frodo, we feel for you!