Futurism Restated #58: Nuggets, Bagpipes, Blissed-Out Breaks

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I’m back after two weeks away, the kind of break I almost never take. I was in Portland, Oregon, with my wife and daughter, visiting my mom. She’s been living in an “independent living” facility for more than a decade, and I try to get back there to visit twice a year. For the past couple of years, though, she’s been dealing with worsening dementia; bas…