“The same dualism underlies the nature and condition of man. Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess…If the gatherer gathers too much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest.”                                                                                                “Compensation” Ralph Waldo Emerson Every year at this time, when winter arrives with its bone chilling cold, gray…

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.  Turkish proverb Back in the previous century, when I was a mere child, my friends and I used to delight in the antics of Abbott and Costello, in particular a skit entitled, “Who’s on First?” The sketch was a…