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Need 2 Minutes Of Calm? Inhale, Exhale ... And Click Here

San Francisco's Asian Art Museum has been asking staffers to highlight favorite objects in the collection. Curator Forrest McGill chose the base of a hookah, made in 17th century India.
Source: Asian Art Museum

Sometimes it's good to be irrelevant. Too much relevance can get you down. Especially in these days of virus, economic pressures, racial discord. We need a break. In that spirit I offer something that has nothing — and as you'll see everything — to do with our turmoiled lives and times:

Looks like a beautiful old vase, right? Well, it old — made in 17th century India — and

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