My father’s life was one to make you disbelieve in justice. He was born to an outwardly decent family. His father & namesake was a decorated Korean War veteran from a classic American Protestant family; his mother a Mattapan Jew. He originally grew up both; synagogue on Saturday, church on Sunday. It started out well [...]
Dying is usually thought of an instant, a moment in time, when a being tips over some unseen edge from warm familiar life into a journey that must remain opaque to those of us left still waiting in line. There…there…and just now, not. Sometimes death is exactly that, all too quick. Wars harvest little [...]
Greatness Is always built upon this foundation: The ability To appear, speak and act As the most Common Man -Hafiz, the Gift
So now I’m off the Yale IV, in more ways than one. Yesterday was Election day locally, and I do mean locally — there were no national races or even statewide races affecting my corner of the universe. We had a remarkably uncontentious set of races for various local offices, punctuated only by the removal [...]
Grampa always valued education more than anything else. But he was not an educated man. He wasn’t a stupid man, or an ignorant one. Throughout his life, he was always curious and hungry for knowledge. He read all the time, and above all loved history, both of the country and of the family. We couldn’t [...]