The sky is falling! Breaking news! Our fragile democracy in peril!!
Life still feels shaky. Even without those constant, frenetic tweets threatening to alter the course of world events in moments, truth competes with fake news. Long-established rights and laws are questioned — or disappear before our eyes. American democracy, firm in its1787 roots and long cherished, now teeters on the brink.
Theater of Dionysus, 6th century BC, restored a few times since then. (Author photo)
Maybe what goes around comes around.
Maybe there’s nothing — or at least not that much — new under the sun.