Life Provides Us All Certain Epiphanies

Phyllis Mueller, my business partner throughout the 1990s, was doggedly hard-working, and incredibly insightful.  At one point she told me, “Everyone has brief moments of clarity in life that are clear messages that we’ve gone the wrong way, occasions in which we can see immediately that we need to get back on the right track.”

I would suggest this to the policeman in this picture: “Pardon me, but you seem to find yourself removing a nun in handcuffs who had come to protest peacefully the cruel treatment of children at the southern U.S. border.  To me, that’s a pretty good indication that something’s gone wrong for you.  You may want to use this moment of lucidity to make a new beginning.”