"Greet terror with the serenity of the enlightened."

For most of us, it is almost impossible to comprehend the ferocity and regularity with which life was upended during the first half of the 20th century. Plague and conflict emerged on an epic scale, again and again. Loss and restriction were routine; disaster was its own season...

When catastrophe is sequential, it eventually trains its survivors to greet terror with the serenity of the enlightened.

Ginia Bellafante
They Survived the Spanish Flu, the Depression and the Holocaust