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It may not help you but it helped me... I thought my Grandad. He was all set to take over the family business (printers) in Belfast, it was the only thing he was ever meant to do. Then the second world war broke out. He left the family business and became bomber crew. He flew bombers over occupied Europe for 6 years and somehow survived. Most of his friends did not. The rest of his life was spent with the image of huge cities burning from edge to edge, etched in the back of his mind, knowing his bombs had done that. He never went back to printing and worked in Air Traffic Control until he retired.

It's not comparable in many ways but the point is that throughout history the human race has had to adapt to the environment which surrounds us. We aren't computers, are environment isn't controlled, things can come into it which are beyond our control and we can't simply remove them. If our grandparents managed 6 years of normal life being put on hold whilst being bombed out of their homes, and having to take up the fight themselves at the cost of never being able to return to that normal life... we have to find a way to cope with the loss of our 'normal' now.

Yes, some people have got lucky and managed to live during periods where nothing has gone to rat **** on the international scale and they've lived a happy and interrupted life. But we are not that generation and we have to find our way through this as every generation before has done.

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I'm actually using some money I inherited from my grandfather to turn my garage into a workshop. He also made it through WWII, but was taken by Covid. He would love that I'm using his money to create something. You're right, we can do this. But damn it's hard.

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THE REAL STAR OF FRIDAY’S SHOW: A gilded, larger-than-life-size statue of Trump … and you’ll never guess where it was crafted.

“It was made in Mexico,” said artist TOMMY ZEGAN, who traveled all the way to CPAC from Rosarito, Mexico, where he lives as an American expat on a permanent resident visa.

The supply chain: Zegan spent over six months crafting the 200-pound fiberglass statue with the help of three men in Rosarito. He transported it to Tampa, Fla., where it was painted in chrome, then hauled it from there to CPAC in a U-Haul, where he managed to cart it through the conference in just a black-and-white Hawaiian shirt and no CPAC credential. (Tickets were sold out.)

“If someone offered me $100,000 I’d take it,” Zegan told Playbook.

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:
“Golden calf”

As I recall this doesn’t end well.