SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 - PEAK POSE: SIDE CROW! - Sometimes, I just want it to stop.Talk of COVID, looting, brutality. I lose my way.I become convinced that this “new normal” is real life.Then I meet an 87-year-old who talks of living through polio, diphtheria, Vietnam protests and yet is still enchanted with life. He seemed surprised when I said that 2020 must be especially challenging for him.“No,” he said slowly, looking me straight in the eyes. “I learned a long time ago to not see the world through the printed headlines, I see the world through the people around me. I see the world with the realisation that we love big. Therefore, I just choose to write my own headlines: “Husband loves wife today.” “Family drops everything to come to Grandma’s bedside.”He patted my hand, “Old man makes new friend.”