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Moral Moments

Who Are You?

by Joel Marks

My life has been a life of loss of late. It’s called getting old, I guess. I’m not really old by modern-day standards; but closer to 60 than 50 is not being a spring chicken. Nevertheless I have found many things to celebrate in these middle-to-late years, and now, much to my surprise, I discover that loss is one of them.

This strange turn of affairs relates to an earlier column (in Issue 55) wherein I introduced meditation, which I treated as an alternative method of philosophizing.

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