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NOW more than ever 2 THE STURBRIDGE TIMES TOWN & C OUNTRY LIVING MAGAZINE APRIL 2020 The Sturbridge Times Town&CountryLiving Magazine PUBLISHER & EDITOR ..................JOHN SMALL ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE .........ELISA KROCHMALNYCKYJ CIRCULATION .............................ROBERT CLARK ADVERTISING DESIGN ..................ANGELA MARK WRITERS .....................................THOMAS CHAMBERLAN ..................................................ELVIS DYER ..................................................ROBERT GEORGE , ESQ ..................................................JULIE GERRISH ..................................................ELISA KROCHMALNYCKYJ ..................................................RICHARD MORCHOE ..................................................G.E. SHUMAN THE STURBRIDGE TIMES TOWN & C OUNTRY LIVING MAGAZINE | S TRATEGEN ADVERTISING , I NC . P.O. 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I usually try to rely on a bit of humor should be. one looked at quarantine measures in a very and the general absurdity of some aspects of What my very wise spouse had realized positive way. It brought some things into life to scaffold one of these short groups of is that perhaps we adults should consider perspective for me. The wording was this: paragraphs. This time, the theme might this time of partial isolation from ‘normal’ “Getting outdoors, Not canceled. Music, seem a bit more serious, and I hope that is life and community as an opportunity to do Not canceled. Family, Not canceled. Read - okay. the same. We should not hoard, but we ing, Not canceled. Singing, Not canceled. Today I’d like to look past the astounding should value the things available to us in Laughing, Not canceled. Hope, Not can - ways our lives have been changing in such our great nation. We should not be selfish celed. Let’s embrace what we have.” abrupt fashion as they have in only the last but should find ways to assist those around We are hearing, day after day, that the fu - few weeks. Those things do amaze me, es - us who need assistance. We should not fear ture is uncertain regarding the coronavirus. pecially in their rapid succession. Our entire but find comfort and strength in our faith That, in its far-reaching effects, is obviously nation, our entire world has been, hopefully and family, as we always should have. true, at least so far. The virus, as the doctors temporarily, thrown into a worsening situa - One newsman that I was listening to the and scientists have said, will wash over our tion that is evolving with each new day. By other day said this is beginning to be re - nation before it subsides. We must hold on, the time you read these words many things ferred to as the ‘Big Pause,’ another way of hole up, and prepare for that. will have changed still more. expressing the idea of a ‘time out’. A per - Still, life is very good and much of that Only yesterday, as my wife and I sat here son’s conscience is often shaken and reset by goodness depends on our attitudes. I once in our own self-imposed partial quarantine, a time of adversity; perhaps this is also true read this quote by famous author Charles she mentioned the idea that perhaps our na - of the conscience of a nation. We do need to Swindoll: “I am convinced that life is ten tion is finding itself in the midst of a great find common ground in this fight against an percent what happens to me, and ninety ‘time out’. She and I almost daily babysit for invisible and common enemy, if we are to percent how I react to it. And so it is with our very active three-year-old granddaugh - win. A virus is no respecter of race, religion, you.” ter and are very familiar with the meaning sex, or political leanings. Stay safe, stay well, and stay optimistic of a time out, for sure. Those times are when My very wise wife also recently texted my friends. a child is disciplined by being forced to sit me, from the other end of the couch, (Ain’t 4 THE STURBRIDGE TIMES TOWN & C OUNTRY LIVING MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW By Richard Morchoe Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think By Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund Flatiron Books, 2018 Hardcover, 352 Pages ISBN-10: 1250107814 ISBN-13: 978-1250107817 It’s all good ... right? ou want to like this book. With bad news As anyone who has seen his videos or read most in our region average out somewhat bet - everywhere in the media, it can only be a the book can see, he has gathered a lot of data ter, but it is where the “rich” consumer level Ypleasure to read someone who sees the world to back up his assertion of the progress to date starts. as getting better and has done research, a lot that gives him, he reasons, cause to assert the In Factfulness , he does show that the “devel - of it, to back up his contention. possible. oping,” or level 1 and 2 nations are progress - The man is Hans Rosling and his testament Hans begins the book by giving the reader ing. The bubble charts on the inside cover and to constant progress is Factfulness: Ten Reasons a test. This is kind of a spoiler alert and no rea - through the book are illustrative of that, but at We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things son not to read the book, but you will flunk it. his Gapminder website, the charts are ani - Are Better Than You Think. In this endeavor, he Why? Because the answers go against the mated.