A friend and I were chatting recently, when she shared a well-known spiritualist’s perspective on how to spend time in quarantine: “You can fall into a hole, or go through a portal,” she said. I agreed that was an interesting concept, as it was: one path suggested dropping to a low point during this time, and the other suggested a passage through to the unknown, and a transformation of self. Then I excused myself and hung up. You know the annoying friend: a successful, sober,