Month: October 2021

Citizenship, Culture, Disease, Healthcare, Leadership, Pandemic, Politics1 Comment

Michael Lewis’ Premonition: A Cautionary Tale

Gary Furr

REVIEW of Michael Lewis, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story W. W. Norton & Company (May 4, 2021). After retirement I am deeply enjoying reading again at a level that I could not do when I was so busy. I just finished The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis. Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. Rather than an exhaustive overview of the pandemic, Lewis tells us from the viewpoint of individuals—a state public health officer, an epidemiologist, IT entrepreneurs and medical researchers racing … Continue reading Michael Lewis’ Premonition: A Cautionary Tale

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A Prayer for Friends Who Have Lost Loved Ones 

Gary Furr

Life in its beginning, life at the end, all is pure and true gift beautiful and real. That there can be life at all, pulsing, real, changing us by holding onto it, astounds us. Love is real, making a dent in our cynicism and pride, real, changing us by causing us to break our hearts to let it in Hope is so fragile in this world amid the darkness and suffering all around us,           But it is real, It dares us to lift our eyes from anger and despair to believe that it all means something. Faith, so powerful … Continue reading A Prayer for Friends Who Have Lost Loved Ones