Being a provider is especially an honor in intimate moments such as a comforting someone as they pass out of this world, into the next.
One summer evening in 2011, in Ottawa, Ontario, I attended an intimate dinner party in honor of Carl Djerassi, a renowned chemist and playwright best known for his contribution to the invention of oral contraceptives.
On Saturday evening, at the Noank Baptist Church, audiences will hear a program titled "The Intimate Bach: A Commemoration" in honor of the 250th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death (he was born in 1685).
Otherwise, the ambience at this intimate cocktail and buffet in honor of the Somalian-born activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali — a woman who faced death threats even before she wrote a film that led to the murder of its director, Theo van Gogh — was one of ease.
It is an honor to be an intimate part of other people's lives.
"It was a pretty huge honor and privilege and intimate thing to do with these people's ashes," she said, later describing a tearful embrace with the couple.
Although failing to meet him during my treatment, I managed to eventually spend an hour picking apart his brain and the honor of stealing an intimate moment with him after his recent concert.
This past week, TechCrunch TV was honored to host an intimate roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
"It is an honor to provide America with an intimate portrait of Hillary," Rhimes said in a statement.
Beck will release a new live CD and DVD Rock N Roll Partyty Honoring Les Paul in February documenting his intimate tribute shows from New York's Iridum Jazz Club this past June.
