Jon Katz recently wondered “…why the idea of the value of helping others has vanished.” He surmised that perhaps “we no longer care who we listen to, and the people we listen to often show little concern for charity, people experiencing poverty, or the concept of empathy.” I don’t think charity or kindness have vanished, exactly. They’re… Continue reading

A lot of human experience, especially the experiences we seem to choose, involves doing the same thing over and over again. It’s a dream of many people to start their own business, and whether it involves cooking, painting, installing closets, fixing cars, moving furniture, or you-name-it, a small business is often (not always) mostly about… Continue reading

If human life spans were just a few months, we would think about the world entirely differently. Events we now ignore as too minuscule, if we even notice them, would take on far more importance. Projects that take a year or more would be enormous undertakings, like building a cathedral in Europe centuries ago.  In… Continue reading