Introducing 'Slender Threads'

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Dear Friends and Extended Family,

I am seeking an antidote to the “tyranny of now” — a cultural obsession with learning the latest news, much of it trivial, while completely at a loss to sort the significant from the insignificant, essence from the trivial and peripheral.

As a long-time journalist and educator, I was a news-aholic and something of a so…