Free-enterprise, competition, community cooperation, empathy, family, and democracy: They have been on the decline for much of my life.
-Where did they go?
-Who took them?
-Why?
-Can we retrieve them?
-If not, what then?
From an ancient, eminently unqualified, former business person, public servant, and diplomat; a collection of thoughts, ideas, notions, garnered over many years of living life and watching the world go round.
These essays, written over some twenty-five years, are a personal attempt to communicate my perceptions of the bewildering world I inhabit.