From a distance: my bucket list

Abstract

Well, let’s blame it on the Oscars held in the last while. The heading, I mean, and this piece. It happened something like this.... In the afterglow of the Oscars, a copy of a letter happened across my screen. Computer, not TV screen. I felt like making the “King’s Speech.” The letter had me frothing at the mouth and it wasn’t even addressed to me. However, the topic has been with us for more than 35 years. What could it have been that got me so enraged and then distant and then...