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Thank the Heavens for emerging sane and sound from Covid,
undergoing Metamorphoses of Being, re-enacting Ovid (1),
resolute in new priorities and rhythms built on humanism,
daring new beginnings, lessons learned in optimism.

Thank the Heavens for this chance to practice empathy …
Conscious that adversity has helped us rediscover solidarity.
From Seneca we learned : “calamitas virtutis occasio” (2).
Indeed, humanity is ultima – and also prima ratio.

1. Metamorphoses (transformations), a narrative poem in 15 books by Ovidius, Roman poet, born in Sulmona, Abruzzo, during the Roman Republic, 43 BC to AD 17.

2. "A disaster is an opportunity to show courage". Seneca, --Roman Stoic philosopher, born in Corduba, Hispania, 4 BC to 65 AD, De Providentia IV, 6.

Never let Corona get you down

Nature remains a great healer -- just go to the mountains

look at the frost on the evergreens, the bare birch trees

relax with vin chaud at the chimney !

Play some Johann Strauss waltzes --

and Renée Fleming singing "Sacred songs" --

smile guaranteed !

Watch the sheep grazing

Catch the Christmas tree being transported from the Blatten

forest down to Naters and installed at the marketplace --

Life goes on

-- and notwithstanding adversity

we survive !