Solutions To Problems Often Depend Upon How

Jazz Exemplifies Artistic Activity That Is At Once Individual And Communal, Performance That Is Both Repetitive And Innovative, Each Participant Sometimes Providing Background Support And Sometimes Flying Free.

Every Loss Recapitulates Earlier Losses, But Every Affirmation Of Identity Echoes Earlier Moments Of Clarity.

The Past Empowers The Present, And The Sweeping Footsteps Leading To This Present Mark The Pathways To The Future.

We Do Not Need To Understand Other People And Their Customs Fully To Interact With Them And Learn In The Process; It Is Making The Effort To Interact Without Knowing All The Rules, Improvising Certain Situations, Which Allows Us To Grow.

The Critical Question About Regret Is Whether Experience Led To Growth And New Learning. Some People Seem To Keep On Making The Same Mistakes, While Others At Least Make New Ones. Regret And Remorse Can Be Either Paralyzing Or Inspiring. [p. 199]