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Voices
January 2007 New Year, New You
We dubbed this issue reinvention. When we sat down what seems like eons ago to assign various themes to the months to come, "reinvention" seemed like a good idea for January. After all, this is the month when so many of us make resolutions that are usually intended to remake ourselves in some small way. What I hadn't realized was that our magazine would also be in the throes of reinvention.
Very Short
Reigniting Our Brains:
By Abby Tallmer
This being Thrive’s “Reinvention” issue, all our “Very Shorts” this month stress some “re”’ factor (reinventing, restoring, reevaluating, etc.). From the top, then: Some German researchers have discovered that augmenting the passage of electrical waves through the human brain can increase memory.
Vital
The Tooth of the Matter
By E.J. Ruskin
A more esthetically appealing smile won’t make you a better person. And you still won’t be able to play the violin. But it may just make you feel better -- and there’s a lot to be said for feeling better. So I went to speak with Jonathan Diamond, a Manhattan dentist with a thriving Midtown practice in cosmetic dentistry.
Venerate
You Do Realize
By Richard Marcus
1-You do realize
They’re going to all be gone soon.
The last ones with the comic accents;
Mishpucha, famiglia, kin, kith.
Brooklyn. South Boston. Chicago.
Tongues mixed with poverty and cabbage.
They’re almost all used up.
Almost all gone.
The last ones who remember us as children,
Whether we want them to or not.
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In This Issue
Verity
The Re-invented Self
By Nancy Weber
The self is the river into which we most surely cannot step twice. Yet whether it hums peaceably between its banks or rises up in roiling destruction, it is the same very river — unmistakable, irreducible, something like imperishable, until it isn’t.
Vigor
Second Acts:
Changing Careers at the Half-Century Mark
By David Gibbons
Had F. Scott Fitzgerald survived another 50 years beyond his premature death in 1940 at the age of 44, chances are he would never have lived down his infamously erroneous pronouncement “There are no second acts in America.” (He might have even had one himself.) In fact, Americans have practically taken it as a birthright, a constitutionally guaranteed freedom, not only to invent but to reinvent themselves.
Vicissitudes
Reinvention vs. Crisis of Confidence
By Wickham Boyle
We have all noticed the phenomenon of people, mostly managers, being promoted steadily until they reach their level of incompetence. We all know bosses, friends, or co-workers who would work much more productively at a lower level, and in fact there was even a book called The Peter Principle that detailed this. I feel I have reached the Peter Principal of middle age.
Value
Making the Most of Customer Service
By Alex Yaroslavsky
One of everyone’s most frustrating experiences is dealing with poorly trained, less-than-motivated, and often distant-sounding customer-service representatives. Sometimes I hesitate to make a purchase at the thought that I might have to return the item and be forced to navigate the muddy waters of the customer-service return process.
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Vision
On Aging Well
By Alfred Norwood
A friend once said: “life is lived forward, but unfortunately it’s understood backward/”. Most of us are all like George Costanza in Seinfeld, who realized, too late, that by declining a date’s offer to “come up for a cup of coffee,” he and we probably missed something more than just caffeine.
Vision
Golden Oldies Soothing More Than the Soul
By Lisa Ecklund-Flores
Forget what you’ve heard about old dogs and new tricks. “I never thought I could play the piano. I had so many bad feelings about myself from my learning disabilities in childhood. But I found out that I can do it; the bad feelings are all behind me. I’m so happy”, says 57-year-old Susan after three weeks of piano lessons – lessons that she is taking for the first time in her life.
Vision eye in the art
Paul Klee The Fearful Strength of Modesty, Economy, and Irony
By Jerry Tallmer
Paul Klee was, and is, a Ding an zich, a thing unto itself. Nobody before or since has created art exactly (or inexactly) like his, and the not least astonishing part of the matter is how quietly, how unassumingly, he did it, yet how everlastingly strong his presence – his heritage – is, just for that reason: its modesty of voice, scale, and tone.
