Intermixed in the spectacular and candid messages of support, I've also received dozens of apologies from friends, classmates, and acquaintances who feel guilty for not being in touch or not realizing what I have been going through.
Still carrying the memory of those little ones from Hanoi, Daniel Berrigan said for the group, "Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children..
No one was hurt, though Father Berrigan's words articulated a change that was coming: Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front of the charnel house.
With apologies to friends who have written terrific books on leadership and corporate social responsibility, the following are the five books (in alphabetical order) that I think social purpose leaders should be reading (or in some cases, re-reading) this year.
Much apology, my friends," wrote Rocky Barbanica, a producer for Rackspace Hosting, an Internet storage firm, in one such note.
"You will get to 'accept or reject' apologies from a friend (kept private between you and your friend) or 'accept or reject' apologies of public figures which we ALL get to see and vote to accept or reject".
The service launches on Tuesday and will let you privately "accept or reject apologies from a friend".
With apologies to her friend Gloria Steinem for the lyrics' sexist content, on Wednesday she infused the old Fanny Brice tune "Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love" with a jolly postcoital bounce.
Apologies to our friend from the Seattle meetup who hates steampunk; this was too great to pass up (and not strictly steampunk).
Similar apologies to another friend who told me she was expecting and soon after I stopped checking in on her progress and growing baby bump.
With apologies to my friends, I always thought I was the best, even when I wasn't the best.
