Nothing lasts forever. So believed Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic philosopher of the 6th. century B.C.E., who famously hypothesized that change is the one unchangeable reality of the cosmos. No one “steps into the same river twice,” he is attributed with saying. And, how true this insight seems in the topsy-turvy world of the past few years, which seem like a roller-coaster ride through the uncertainty, turmoil, and impermanence of relentless change, and change in the wrong direction. Over the last year, the loftiest values and sensitivities of our humanity have been maligned, insulted and brutalized. From turning a blind eye to [...]