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Through Lily’s Eyes

Jann Wenner writes in his biography “Like a Rolling Stone” (2022) about developing wisdom as we age without becoming cynical. Achieving healthy skepticism and discernment are superb and useful traits, but outright, brain-dead cynicism is just too dark, cheap, and intellectually lazy - at least for my taste. Of course, Wenner, the Rolling Stone Magazine founder and longtime editor, lacked considerable wisdom, grace, and smarts when he cynically said last year that the rock-star interviewees in another of his books, “The Masters” (2023) were all white men because there were no women or people of color “articulate” enough to have made his cut. Good grief! This got me thinking about Lily. I sat next to this (I’m guessing) seven-year-old girl and her dad recently at a St. Louis Cardinals v. Houston Astros spring training game in Jupiter, FL. Lily was having a great time at her first game. Her eyes lit up when the Astros’ Jose Altuve, among other players, signed her baseball. She grinned br

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