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This is the gift-giving season. And, as we know, it is better to give than to receive. If you’re like me, you’ve bought and exchanged gifts (and perhaps had some of those gifts exchanged at the store afterwards) and, maybe, even now Aunt Minnie is wearing one of the sweaters you bought her and nephew [...] I was on a flight yesterday from San Antonio to Charlotte. A woman sat next to me and ahead of us were, it seemed, her parents. As we were taking off, the woman pulled out a pack of gum, offered a stick to each of her parents and turned and offered me one. Today’s New York Times has an interesting article about how people visit museums. The author juxtaposed the pre-technological age habit of “deep-diving” into literature and art versus today’s “smash-n-grab” approach (walk in to a museum, grab a headset, walk through, drop headset, have a latte). I am not a pack rat. In fact, at home, I have a six-month rule — if we haven’t looked at or used something for over six months, out it goes. (To be truthful, my wife has a separate rule which requires us to fill the basement to overflowing before we consider throwing anything out, [...] The Autumn before my Father died, we visited Phillipsburg, Montana. That previous Summer, before the surgery that left him unable to speak, my Dad had mentioned that his father had taken him to Phillipsburg and he wanted to see if he could recognize the place. So, on a bright Fall morning, my Mom, my Dad [...] |
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