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Patience, porches, and other silver linings: Notes from my quarantine journal
On Lake Michigan / Cindy La Ferle “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” ~Julius Caesar June 22, 2020Until this morning, I didn’t have the emotional strength to process several events that spiraled downward in the past couple of weeks. To protect the privacy of friends and family, I won’t rehash everything here.Suffice it to say that too many good people I know have been battling relentless challenges, grief, or loss — personal battles that would try anyone’s soul outside the frame of a global pandemic.Last week, just for starters, a dear friend’s elderly…