Earlier this winter, I received an invitation from a Twitter friend to a March 9th screening of Forgotten Farms, a documentary capturing the travails of New England dairy farmers . Although I had marked my calendar and long looked forward to the event, I considered bailing on the day of it. Why? The coronavirus.
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Disclaimer: spoilers ahead!! What does it mean to be a good person? What does one need to do to be considered good? There isn’t a simple definition or a single answer and that’s exactly what NBC’s The Good Place tried to tell us over the show’s four seasons, which concluded in January.
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Several weeks ago, I attended a conversation between photographer and writer Chris Arnade and University of Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen. The discussion focused on Arnade’s recent book Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America (Sentinel, 2019).
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Timing is everything, and it’s one of those clichés that journalists should always avoid. Except when we can’t. My recent visit to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo to take part in a conference at the diocesean Christ the King Seminary qualifies as an exception to the rule, I think.
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