There’s “ordinary” news: market whiplash; leadership/not leadership; greed, hatred, and delusion.
 
But there’s sweet news, too: the child of a friend and benefactor who cleans houses for living - a child who’s been planning to be a lawyer since they were five -

got into Princeton undergrad with a full ride.Princeton, full ride, with a solid foundation of love and goodness underneath them:  leadership in the making.

In the middle of the muck (from the incredibly hard work of scrubbing toilets) a triumph. From the deep mud, a gorgeous lotus.