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Life is a Mountain: Into Thin Air and Beyond

April 16, 2017
I once met a bumper sticker that read, “Life is a mountain, not a beach.” For much of mine, mountains have been among other things, my favorite metaphor. But sometimes you can get too much, even of a good metaphor. Take, for example, the tragic events that unfolded high on the highest place on Earth […]
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