I am a big personal and professional advocate for The Golden Rule. Over four decades of directing public relations initiatives, I’ve come to appreciate the inherent, over-arching value of reciprocity -- how and why doing good for others always benefits…
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This is a public service: Please read “What Pete Buttigieg Understood,” in The Atlantic by Peter Wehner, a self-described conservative who offers an intelligent and objective perspective on political morality and Mayor Pete’s eloquent and hopefully transcendent impact on political…
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While we try to wrap our heads around the real-time and long-term consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, optimistic (maybe more like wishful) thinkers might find comfort in considering the occurrence of some unintended, yet potentially very positive culture changes once…
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Every now and then: Shut up and listen! The exercise projects humility. Plus, you might actually learn something. Of course, it’s easier said than done, no pun intended. Listening requires intentionality and, wait for it … patience. Most people are…
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One night I awoke with a particularly random thought in my head. Halfheartedly, I reached for a notepad by my bedside, and scribbled “Recycle Rex.” To my surprise, the next morning the note actually made sense. Which led me to…
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This story could go on forever, but here’s the abbreviated version. A young woman walks into a trendy downtown bistro and grabs a stool at the bar. She possesses an almost unnatural beauty, at once alluring and intimidating. She’s appears…
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The paperback Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations was an impulse buy at Target. (That’s redundant, I know.) What happened next was less predictable. As the youngish cashier scanned the book, she looked up and sighed, “He inspired…
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ARCHIVE UPDATE Thanksgiving is the Rodney Dangerfield of holidays. It gets no respect, no respect. That the celebration is relegated to a turkey dinner says a lot about our culture. We’ve become more interested in tricks and treats and crass…
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Humble Sky, the title and theme of this blog, observes that humankind need only look skyward to appreciate the obvious limit of our comprehension; and further, that this universal reality check should encourage us to be more curious and more…
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Hypocrisy is dead. Good riddance, right? Except … the loss is exposing a hazardous void, like a sewer manhole without a cover. So, how did this happen: the passing of hypocrisy, which served with such distinction as the universally scorned…
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