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The Gift of Doubt
Celebrating the 12 days of Christmas with short reflections on 12 gifts Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is a deplorable one. Voltaire Balancing the gift of faith is the gift of doubt. Questioning what we read, see, … Continue reading
From a Distance
Watching M*A*S*H in syndication, with its endless triage of patients, leads me to think about triage for our world and its problems. As I do my now-requisite treadmill time, I flip through the channels, trying to find something that … Continue reading
Where’s an Ancient Greek When You Need One?
Exploring the construct of shaking things up in a paper bag to reach the golden mean. As I step into my direct report’s office, he steps back, increasing the distance between us to just under the raise-your-voice-to-be-heard distance. I … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Policy, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Attitudes, Citizenship, Critical Thinking
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Moment of Inertia
I squirm uneasily in my chair. Breakfast is done and I am leafing not-very-interestedly through the newspaper delivered to my door at oh-dark-hundred. This is my normal routine but today something is not quite right and I don’t have a … Continue reading
A Piece of Cake
An ill-advised trip to a botanical garden in the heat of a hot day leads to a new Theory of Everything based on daylilies, folk songs, art, and the abilities and disabilities of the human mind. It is weather … Continue reading
One Right Answer
Two, four, six, eight. What comes next? If you said, Who do we appreciate?, you may have spent more time at school football and basketball games (rah, rah!) than in math class. Continue reading
Full Disclosure
Comparing and contrasting the challenges and benefits of paying for healthcare and waiting for healthcare. In the interest of full disclosure… Journalists use this phrase when they want to declare a personal connection to their subject. I think the … Continue reading
Worth A Thousand Words
Where’s your picture? I stood there, stumped. I had taken my impenetrable calculus problem to my then-resident engineer, asking for help, begging for relief, and this was the best he could do? I didn’t want more questions, I wanted answers. … Continue reading
Cleaned Out
Being the 9th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. For those of us with the tidiness gene/impulse/obsession, this is a great time of year, when we can indulge in socially sanctioned tidying. Better … Continue reading
Posted in Thinking Broadly, Through the Calendar
Tagged Christmas, Critical Thinking, New Years
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