We take a quick look at the, thank God Almighty, departing Year 2021 and the incoming Year 2022.
Then we briefly all the major challenges that we are encountering now that we are finally coming out of our hiding cocoons and trying to build ourselves a “new reality”, whatever that might be.
One of our biggest concerns should be “not to lose ourselves”, as Kierkegaard sagely warned us.
Please enjoy it and we will always welcome any suggestions at email@drmolaplume.com
Good morning. For the past few weeks, many readers contacted us to find out if we had already finished editing our new book Emotional Frustration – the hushedplague and when it would be finally published as both a physical and e-book formats. We proudly announce that we have finished that task and will send it to the publishing house.
In early March we had just sent a supposedly final version of the book but the dramatic moments we went through thereafter, both personally and professionally due to the pandemic, made us re-consider our decision. It would have been dishonest to ignore the dramatic effects of the Social Isolation and Economic breakdown we were witnessing.
Not only we reviewed our previously finalized writings but, based on new articles of our page, we added more than fifty pages of new material with many updated references. Moreover, we dared to discuss some of the startling features of the coming “new reality” that will bear little resemblance to the familiar world we used to consider “as ours.”
Women will play a decisive role in rebuilding our lives inside and outside our homes, like they did after the Great Plague of 1348; their more assertive socio-economic role will bring major changes at the family, financial, labor and employment, civic realities. If we rely on them to help us get out of this morass, we should at least respect them more.
We present you a new page, which was added at the beginning of the new manuscript.
“If only one person reads this book…we would feel very satisfied.
If only one person gets the message…our mission would be done.
If only one person is distracted from the Horror…we would be happy.
We were about to deliver the final edited version of this manuscript for its publication when the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic brutally broke in the public scene of the United States. Initially shocked like the rest of the population, we went into strict social isolation. However, as a practicing physician, we had to continue our duties as best we could. In the relative safety of our desk, we pondered whether we should publish it or not. We knew that there had been a complete shutdown of most publishing initiatives.
People cloistered at home deserve the possibility of substantive reading. Terrified by the darkness swirling around, they might like this little piece of light. Emulating the heroic example of Anne Frank, we should garner our moral strength. Dismissing any commercial considerations, we will go ahead with its publication.
In one of the poor quarters of Nàpule —where some of our kin had lived —a neighbor lowered, with a little rope, a basket with a sign from the balcony: inside it, passers-by could drop groceries they wanted to offer for others to pick up.
