Sometimes in pensive older age, perhaps prompted by an occasion, one reflects anew on the obvious. My wife and I were in Vienna to visit

You may have noticed that since Brene` Brown (The Gifts Of Imperfection) and others, the idea of perfection has taken a bit of a beating,

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Consider three pictures, at first seemingly unconnected. It is late winter, and you are a freshman at some college in the Midwest, though home is