What are the tools with which I seek meaning?
- Acuteness, born of temperament, rearing, and training
- A liberal arts and sciences education
- Conscious reading
- Observation while traveling
- Upholding a family value inspired by Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living."
- Upholding another family value, inscribed on the Temple of Apollo in Delphi: "Know thyself."
- Relentless self-reflection, self-scrutiny, self-analysis, both self-undertaken and guided by others
- Openness to insights of others, whether kindly or brutally offered
- Insights gained from personal, intimate interactions with thousands through having been a teacher, a confidante, then a counselor
- A late-life master’s degree in mental health counseling (2006)
- List-making
- Hope
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