Here we are…at the halfway point of the 2020s. The first half seems like it was both yesterday and forever ago, doesn’t it? Tempus fugit. That’s what the ancients said. Time flies. But as time passes, as the world changes, how many of us just stay the same? Incredible, unbelievable events have transpired, but I would not say I have transformed myself in any incredible or unbelievable way. We go on being the way we always were, not unlike, as Marcus Aurelius noted, those gladiators...
