When the Mega-Million lottery swells to what seems to be a bursting point, I buy a ticket, giddy imagining the happiness those millions would bring. Or would they? From Aristotle and his Nicomachean Ethics to the U.S Declaration of Independence to “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” a simple little ditty that you’ll hum all day, happiness—or at […]
Gratitude
GRATTITUDE
Along the tracks of my Harlem Line commute, I often catch a sight out the train window that seems oddly out of place. A billboard looms over the ever-congested Cross Bronx Expressway, bearing a single misspelled word: “GRATTITUDE.” No matter how early the hour, how bad the weather, or how harried the commute, the sign […]