Two weeks ago, in a New Year’s Day message (An Optimistic Perspective for 2021), I raised the question of whether or not it was possible to be optimistic after all we have been through in 2020. Eternal optimist that I am, my response was a resounding yes. There were still reasons to be optimistic. Then the events …
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An Optimistic Perspective for 2021
Though the title of this journal entry indicates that I’m going to be looking ahead – and I am – looking ahead often requires that we look back as well. This not only provides perspective, but also can demonstrate that our efforts are not futile. What has succeeded before can succeed again. Certainly we can’t …
The Metropolitan Museum at 150 – A Special Group of Personal (and Professional) Perspectives
As we move into the final weeks of this year which – truth to tell – few of us can find the words to describe, I am taking it upon myself to describe something very special from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We New Yorkers know and love this museum (once the city’s primary tourist …
Honoring Frances Hesselbein
A few weeks ago, I participated in a very special event. It was Frances Hesselbein’s 105th birthday celebration on November 1. In observance of the occasion, friends and colleagues gathered for a festschrift in her honor. And this was a different kind of festschrift. Instead of the usual reading of scholarly papers, for this festschrift we …
Cleveland’s Arcade – An American Art Nouveau Treasure
Since a visit to Cleveland in mid-2019, it has been my intention to share a few observations about the city (or the part I visited, mostly on the shore of Lake Erie and what is generally referred to as Cleveland’s “historic downtown”). I had been to Cleveland before, at least twice, both times on business. …
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