Becalmed. It’s an expression that has been taken from the world of sailing and applied to many walks of life. For the past year or so it feels as if the world has been becalmed as Covid-19’s tentacles reached across seas from continent to continent…
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Crisis? What Crisis? Oh…that Crisis.
The world is currently in crisis. Or, more accurately, humans are currently undergoing a crisis. We are looking into the face of a new virus, and suddenly our mortality stares us directly in the face: we are not invulnerable.
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
It is most unusual to stare at the Atlantic Ocean and see it almost empty of vessels. For the last 600 years or so, our ocean has hosted vessels ranging from wooden galleons to super-tankers, and everything in between.
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