Striking a balance
Recently, I was watching one of the morning news programs, and one of their segments featured an author who had written a book, about the isolation we are increasingly experiencing as a society, and the pressure those in the upper classes put on their children to succeed. That conversation reminded me of something I'd heard during a book study I attended several years ago. One of the other book-study participants worked part-time as the organist to a Jewish synagogue in Chicago's northern... Sign in to see full entry.