Autumn is a special time to recall that we stand on tall shoulders. A walk through the woods among the giant trees, as I took the other day, can remind us that we have met with such. It’s breath-taking to behold the profusion of bright yellow foliage beneath the towering evergreens, evergreens like witnesses to …

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It’s a little daunting to consider the theme when I grow up in the year when with your teenage peers of yesteryear you’re celebrating your fiftieth high school reunion. Really? When you grow up? If maturation hasn’t fully happened by now, when might it? I do like Walter Hooper’s hearty dismissal of the idea that …

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