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Share “Though we share so many secrets, there are some we never tell.” William Martin (Billy) Joel He called it “The Stranger” and titled a 1977 masterpiece after it. In my business we sometimes refer to it as the “third persona” with a nod to Jungian psychology. A persona is simply a mask, the figurative one we [...] Share Roughly 2000 years ago an itinerant rabbi gave a sermon about light. The right thing to do with a lamp, said the rabbi, was to let it shine, not put it under a basket. That made sense in a time where light after sunset was a luxury; hence the parable. And of course, in the [...] Share Elizabeth “Lizzy” Seeberg passed to the next life on September 10, 2010, a little more than a year ago. I did not know her. Readers of this space, however, know that I was profoundly touched by her life, her death, her courage, and finally the courage of her parents as 9/10/10, for them, bled brutally [...] Share In an angst-filled conversation regarding his own duties to it, Russell Crowe’s character in the movie “Gladiator” says to his Emperor, “I have seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal, and cruel, and dark. Rome is the light.” Despite falling far short of its ideals, and even in the face of an [...] Share In college a naive but well-intentioned fellow student asked a history professor why alternative theories on the Holocaust weren’t at least presented in classes on the subject. She made it clear she didn’t believe the deniers’ arguments, but didn’t understand how a university could willfully ignore alternative theories (even offensive ones) on a subject if [...] |
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