When the world we live in shifts, our response to it changes. Right down to this blog. Let’s be specific:
This will be the last in the “Maps Change Things” series. Declining health requires that I give up this enjoyable way of keeping in touch with you on things that matter. Make no mistake: my farewell goes with deep appreciation for the connection we have.
Being greedy, for centuries despised as one of the Seven Deadly Sins or, in more secular terms simply seen as subhuman, has now been rehabilitated. Greed is becoming a virtue.
The process is going on even as we read. Not all have bowed the knee to greed, but the evidence is all around us, in the private realm and public policy.
“It’s time to focus on ourselves” comes the advice, sent by words and symbols and action, in tweets and sermons, ads and popular songs.
LIFE is a gift. (Did you ask for it?) Unwrapping it, on the other hand, is a do-it-yourself process. Sometimes we also discover that some assembly is required.
This letter invites you to think about two stories— perspectives by two brothers on the unwrapping-plus-assembly experience we all deal with every day. These will be followed by Reflections, which I hope you will also enjoy!
They met; they fell in love.
Or was it the other way around?
Did the buzz begin before they met? Was the prospect of meeting a stranger who might turn out to be that very special friend enough to send their heartbeats into rapid mode? If anticipation, as the saying goes, is half the fun, they were feeling the thrill, the adrenalin rush well before they ever set eyes on each other.
