It is the last day of 2020. The sun falls pleasantly on my back, mildly warming the mid-afternoon chill in the air. I must not forget it is still winter and spring is a few months away. And though tomorrow a new year will begin, winter will still persist… Perhaps that is 2020’s lesson to me: to trust (and expect) the persistence and resoluteness of nature. Nature remained infallible as we witnessed one cataclysm after the other unleashed by the pandemic and pestilence (remember the locusts?). So much has happened in the last twelve months that in many ways, it feels like one has lived right through a decade. Two…