A few Words for New Year's Day

The search for a path through life

Nov. 26

Sparkill, NY

Last night we hosted a gathering of close friends. As is often the case these days, especially among the men, there was much discussion of the many disasters human beings are engineering here on the planet. We have done this, of course, for many centuries; but it's obvious to all that a new urgency is arising due to the scale of our d…