The multifaceted self

Happy Tuesday - 

We are, each as individuals and together as a nation, striving to define our post-pandemic ‘new normal’ – economically, culturally, and personally; to know who we have been and to embrace the newness of who we now are.  To hold those two senses of self in our minds. 

In “The Crack-Up,” published in 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald was striving to do the same; he looked out over the New York City landscape, newly chastened by the Great Depression, and noted that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”