There is a crack in everything, that ‘s how the light gets in

--- Leonard Cohen

In March, right on the heels of the incoming tsunami of the coronavirus, one of my most cherished lifelong friends died.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book “Love in the Time of Cholera” set its love stories in the midst of calamity. The title plays on the double meaning of cholera in Spanish - referring both to the disease

Come to terms with death, thereafter anything is possible.
Albert Camus

I first encountered Ernest Becker while I was in college. His book, The Denial of Death, was required reading for a philosophy