Everyone’s buying jigsaw puzzles. I read the other day that Ellen DeGeneres’ table isn’t big enough for the 4,000 piece jigsaw she’s working on. My friend, Bianca completed the solar system last week. It makes sense that online sales of this rainy day activity have sky rocketed in the last few weeks. It may not be raining, but we’re all indoors. I’ve always found puzzles to be a noble pastime. To think of the time and patience it takes to complete a puzzle, only to take it apart days, hours even after it’s done. I liken them to building sandcastles. We spend hours on something that we know come end of day will be washed away by the tide. And yet, we keep doing it, day after day, year after year. To me, sandcastles represent optimism and hope. There’s a photograph of a sandcastle by artist Wolfgang Tillmans that captures the essence of this sentiment. And this image of the Queen working on a puzzle does the same.