Dear Friends, These days, I’ve been thinking about things I need to spend more time considering. Thomas Hobbes famously suggested that life is “poor, nasty brutish and short.” One might assume he is speaking from the context we find ourselves in today. Yet, most of us can probably agree, this doesn’t appear to be the experience or expectation of most living in the US today. Indeed, one of the marvels of modern life is how much we take for granted. We expect heat in the winter, air conditioning...