A Column in Miracles
“You’ll learn more from people with whom you disagree than from those with whom you agree.” Such was the sage advice given to a recently graduated young man in the first days of his first adult job. The young man was me. The sage, my mentor and much-missed best friend, Anthony Turney. At the time, Anthony was “the big boss” — Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. I was a lowly clerk typist (GS 750 or something...) working for — gasp! — the Republican “friend of Ronnie & Nancy”, Marvin Liebman. Upon learning this — Yella’ Dog Democrat Son of the South that I was, and am — I indignantly announced to Anthony that “I need to quit!” “You’ll learn more from people with whom you disagree than from those with whom you agree.” Anthony and I had become close quickly: he, perhaps the logical morphing of wise father and kindly big brother I so missed, and only sporadically ever had; me (perhaps) the son or parishioner that Anthony never had / would have dec...