Collective Mourning for John F. Kennedy, Not for Wesley LePatner
Maybe it was a spillover from WWII when there were absolute values. The Nazi were bad. Sacrifices were necessary to support the military. Pray for the US troops. We Boomers ran with all that, making all the moves authority figures such as high school guidance teachers hammered were the only ways to proceed forward. And forward we went, the luckiest generation in America Now, we are not so sure. Neither are the clients for tarot-reading sessions with me. Increasingly they ask me about right and wrong. Essentially, they come to me for "permission" how to live their lives with other human beings, be it a romantic partner, a boss or a competitor. They are human beings without a code of absolutes to turn to. Predictably then, there is no collective mourning for the mother, wife and productive executive - Wesley LePatner - who was murdered in the Midtown Manhattan massacre. There was, though, when father, husband and US President - John F. Kennedy - was murdered. A nat...