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What Do I Want To Take Home From My Summer Vacation? Time. The Wonderful Luxury Of Being At Rest. The Days When You Shut Down The Mental Machinery That Keeps Life On Track And Let Life Simply Wander. The Days When You Stop Planning, Analyzing, Thinking And Just Are. Summer Is My Period Of Grace.

We Spend January 1st Walking Through Our Lives, Room By Room, Drawing Up A List Of Work To Be Done, Cracks To Be Patched. Maybe This Year, To Balance The List, We Ought To Walk Through The Rooms Of Our Lives...not Looking For Flaws, But For Potential.

Forty Is ... An Age At Which People Have Histories And Options. At Thirty, They Had Perhaps Less History. At Fifty, Perhaps Fewer Options.

We May Never Know Why Joe Ellis Fabricated A Heroic Past. But We Know That The Life He Embellished Has Deeply Diminished The Life He'd Earned.

When Speech Is Divorced From Speaker And Word From Meaning, What Is Left Is Just Ritual, Language As Ritual.