PATIENCE EMPATHY PERSEVERANCE
My late grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Rosenberg, who died at 98, was a calm and generally unflappable school teacher born in 1888 near Minsk, Russia. Her parents emigrated to the USA for better opportunities here when she was six months old. Born Mary Marholin, she self-adopted a middle name because, as she told me, so many of her Irish immigrant schoolmates had Elisabeth as a middle name.
She visited me in a dream last night while I was considering what we should do to survive four years of an angry, despotic president elected by the slimmest of margins.