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The National Museum of Art & Ukrainian Food, Part 2

We return to the National Museum of Art to browse the top floor.  We’ve saved it, knowing that we won’t get an adoption appointment today. We enter the most fabulous rooms of paintings by Georgiy Melikhov (1908-1985).  In 1947, he won the Stalin prize, which speaks volumes.  Back then, of course, any artist who didn’t […]

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Adoption Quandary

It’s just finished raining as we exit the Kiev airport—the sun is out, the air scrubbed clean.  The director of the Ukrainian Adoption Program and his assistant have met us, and now we’re heaving all the luggage into the back of his Navigator. As we pull out of the lot, the director turns to me.  […]

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Amazing Wildlife

In the woods around our house, we have lots of animal activity.  We’ve been enjoying the chipmunks who love the corncobs we set out.  They’ll stretch up to the very top of the cob and, using the funniest contortions, manage to fill up their cheeks to busting, before they’ll run down the pole to their […]

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The Samaritan’s Dilemma, Part 3

Is giving ingrained in us?  Do we have to do it?  Just because we know it’s right? A couple of stories from The Samaritan’s Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor.  Here, the author Deborah Stone, quotes the “Metropolitan Diary” of the New York Times: “Ned Helfand was walking past Madison Square Garden recently when a […]

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The Samaritan’s Dilemma, Part 2

Is there such a thing as altruism?  True altruism? I’m a little farther along in The Samaritan’s Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor? by Deborah Stone.  The chapter I’m reading now is about altruism–does it really exist?  Thomas Hobbes (1651) felt that every act of kindness is really just a form of caring for one’s […]

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