Keeping up relationships is a challenge during the current coronavirus pandemic. At my retirement center, the residents on the 13th floor open their apartment doors during the dinner hour to join each other in a round of “God Bless America.” Another man uses Zoom, an online video

Language is a frail bridge upon which to send out our thoughts and feelings over time and space.  Where is the congruity between puffs of air and our inner lives?  To achieve communion with someone outside ourselves is akin to magic. That bridge becomes frailer when we factor in age