And yet, it’s a happier fact of human behavior that all tribes are separated less by walls than by membranes, and those membranes can break and the tribes combine as easily as two raindrops running down a windshield that need merely touch to merge. But something must make the touching happen — and not many things can. | |
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And if it made us small? If it made us feel that we are of less consequence, less magnitude, than we usually think we are? Well, good. Humility was part of the veil of peace that was drawn over the country on Aug. 21. So was community. And so, it would be nice to think, was gratitude. | |
— Jeffrey Kluger | |
From his article: “Mother Nature, the uniter, briefly eclipses the nation’s divisions“ | |
Describing the 21 August 2017, totality eclipse for Time Magazine dtd: 4 September 2017 | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Still Trying To Understand |
V Memories From Saudi Arabia | |
2020 | Sometimes Just Being There Is Enough |
And I Owe It All To You | |
2019 | Or Live For It |
2018 | Happy Thanksgiving (2018) |
2017 | Grateful Humility |
2016 | Obstacles |
Election + 2 Weeks | |
2015 | Done What You Could |
2014 | Impossible To Other Men |
2013 | Just In Case |
2012 | Isn’t This Just Pleasant? |
2011 | No Void In Sight |
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Grateful Humility
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