On the New Year’s eve of 1998-1999, I went out with my friends to the West end of 4^th street. My friend, Rebecca, went to pick up a platter of drinks. After I drank one of those drinks, I don’t remember anything. At all. Until the next day at noon. Only years later did I put it all together.

The pandemic has challenged all of us, and especially your truly, in the department of maintaining equanimity, magnanimity, and loving-kindness for my fellow humans. Recently, I’ve been wrestling with anger toward the “vaccine-hesitant” and thought I’d write about it.

Recently, I discovered a Reddit community called /r/HermanCainAward. A “Herman Cain Award” is named after the Trump-supporting businessman Herman Cain who, shortly after attending a Trump rally in 2020, contracted COVID-19, and then died of it.