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Saturday, August 03, 2002

A Man Who Lived His Principles

"I have no illusions that my pacifist views are going to prevail, none at all. But every great change in expanding the dimensions of human freedom has come from very small original beginnings: somebody said no." Steve Cary was still very much a part of campus life when I was at Haverford. A generation earlier, my mom worked for him at the American Friends Service Committee. Oh yeah, he was also involved in winning a Nobel Peace Prize.

Flying Lessons

Sydney doesn't want to fly. I ask her why. She says she fears that terrorists will steal the plane and fly it into a building. I say that won't happen. She says, what if it does? I say, then we die. Lisa looks at me like I'm crazy for speaking to an eight-year-old that way, but I think she knows the answer and so it is fair to validate her understanding before quickly moving on to the reasons such events are highly unlikely. Now if I can just keep her from throwing up en route I will be dad of the day.


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