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  to such splendid weather before the traffic crashed back over us again in torrents and I lost you in the slanting rearview mirror.’’ -- From “A Break in the Weather,’’ by Paul Mariani (born 1940), an American poet and professor emeritus of literature at Boston College   “It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.’’ Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U.S. Supreme Court justice and solicitor general and perhaps best known as the chief U.S. prosecutor at th...

  “As Americans get vaccinated, they must decide whether to remember the people who sacrificed to keep stores open and hospitals afloat, the president who lied to them throughout 2020 and consigned them to disaster, the families still grieving, the long-haulers still suffering, the weaknesses of the old normal, and the costs of reaching the new one. They must decide whether to resist the decay of memory….’’  -- Ed Yong, who writes on science for The Atlantic. He has degrees in zoology and microbiology     The other week I accidentally came upon a TV series on PBS called The Road t...

PHOTO: Susanne Nilson CC: 2.0 Enjoy your low-key (meditative?)  and uncrowded Christmas. Then let’s especially celebrate New Year’s Day, with the likelihood that science will end the COVID-19 nightmare over the next six months. Like the weather, COVID cases will probably worsen in the next few weeks, but as spring is coming,  so the pandemic will be going.   Perhaps some lonely people won’t feel so bad this Christmas since so many more people than usual will be alone this Christmas. Indeed,  to be alone seems to be the patriotic in-thing.   Christmas brings out silly memories. A co...

  “All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.’’ -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright and critic   “To me Newport could never be a place charming by reason of its own charm. That it is a very pleasant place when it is full of people, and the people are in spirits and happy, I do not doubt. But then the visitors would bring, as far as I am concerned, the pleasantness with them.’’ -- Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), English novelist and civil servant.   Tiny House, Portland Oregon