Raves, rants and reality

Benjamin Disraeli was a wildly distinguished British politician and novelist who lived through nearly all of the 1800’s. Although it’s likely that most Americans won’t remember him from European history or simply never learned of him at all, you can bet that most of us have quoted him at least once.

Disraeli is generally accepted to have been the first to say, “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”

I find that quote both comforting and heartbreaking.

I’m incredibly grateful that time does move forward, taking us and every single atom in the universe along with it (as far as we know, at le...