The Hard Work of Making Choices
<1007 words> I participated in a conversation yesterday in which it was lamented that the liberal left in North America has finally achieved Nirvana – extinction/disappearance. It was said that there is such a consciousness of the harm that we have done to each other and of the harm that’s been done to us that […]
When a quiet lunch goes wrong in a public place
Irritability can sometimes come out of nowhere and ruin a perfectly good day. I recently had the
experience with someone who was triggered by the totally innocent and absent-minded behaviour of someone else – a complete stranger: the signs of agitation were there. She vocalised it “if that
guy doesn’t stop playing with his ice I’m going to have to do something.” I looked up, and yes indeed at the next table there was a man …