Editor’s column: This too shall pass

It’s an old saying that can be traced back to Persian poets. Abraham Lincoln, prior to becoming

America’s 16th president, used it in a speech: “It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: ‘And this, too, shall pass away.’ How much it expresses!…