The nature vs. nurture debate remains unsettled, and many of us spend a large chunk of our lives grappling with how much of our personalities and destinies are determined (or pre-determined) by our childhood experiences, the traits ensconced in our genes, and whatever we think is uniquely us.
But it would be refreshing to hear our leaders grappling with these deeper issues, if only to assist us build a stronger bridge between our own inner worlds and the one we share.
Even in the dim light from the pink bulb, even if I half closed my eyes and didn't look directly at him, even when I was mixing together in my mind the physical reality of our bodies grappling and one of my stories about Patrick, the knowledge that he wasn't Patrick seeped irresistibly in.
Yet, according to Herman, the research sets a new baseline in our societal grappling with CIM's prospective cost value to health care systems.
The story of a modern day Noah, it's the sort of bloated comedy that Hollywood made in the Sixties, with the concept of our hero grappling with tons and tons of animals creating such logistical nightmares that niceties like story and character development get left by the wayside.
Just two months ago, we were in heated debate about baseball's mere place in our sudden crisis culture, grappling with our guilt for even caring about when the season should resume and El Duque's condition and the long nights of the postseason to come.
"Our Planning Board grappled with this, to put a limit on the new construction so it doesn't appear out of scale for the neighborhood," he explained.
"The index shows that poorer young people are financing richer old people as our society grapples with demographic change and increasing longevity".
In the horrifying aftermath, our nation grappled to take some meaning out of such senseless tragedy.
When the racial injustices of our land grapple my soul, I often return to Baby Suggs' sermon in Toni Morrison's Beloved.
