An aphoristic remark I heard at John's recent farewell is worth recording. While it could be easily dismissed as a bit of mildly amusing word play of the greeting card genre, it has an amazing poignancy because of who made it and whom it was about. The laconic and mysterious ex-MD of Poland had specially... Continue Reading →
Endings: Closure and Continuity
This has been a summer of goodbyes. So many colleagues have left (mostly retirements) that one cannot help wondering at what point the individual discontinuities will accumulate into a more culturally pervasive sense of an epoch-shift. The only thing that prevents one from feeling this transition acutely is that the replacements are often people we know. ... Continue Reading →
Notes to Self 