GLOBAL GYPSUM:THE LAST WORD

摘要

One of my New Years Resolutions was perhaps a strange one:If there is a moment at which I could either shake someone's hand,or not,then I should default to shaking their hand.We have all been in such situations,where it could go either way-either a nod of the head or an actual contact.Furthermore,and it might be going a bit far,but if I'm alone and someone else is alone,then let's try to be less alone,together.Despite the Coronavirus outbreak,I'm opting for contact.One reason for my resolution is my favourite story in a book of folk tales that I used to read to my small children at bedtime(that ship has now sailed-they are young ladies now and stay up later than me).The story was that of’Stone Soup,’and it's a story that you may have heard before,in one of its many forms,since it seems to mutate with geography and with time.In’my’version,it goes like this: