“We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.” – Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird While Anne Lamott has been a voice of wisdom for me, I think she’s half wrong here.  If by “we” she means “everybody,” then it’s clear to me that we don’t all know – existentially, truly know – that we’re going to die.  The people who blithely scoff at the COVID-19 virus as “just the flu” and who assume that youth or health or power or wealth or belonging to the Read more