Thank you for sharing this insightful reflection and your personal story. This is, indeed, “the best of times” and “the worst of times” simultaneously. Equipoise is essential for our emotional health: the ability to share both the joys and horrors of being alive at this time, without being deluded by one or demoralized by the other. For me, the best path to equipoise is regular meditation practice: breathing, observing, letting go—followed by a generic daily agenda to be well, do good work, and keep in touch, and to reconsecrate our lives daily to learning, teaching, healing, and creating—no matter what happens in the world…