WE said our farewells to Vicente “Ting” Paterno this week. He went off at the age of 89 to his just reward, a destination that we are all on our way to in our own time to find our just desserts.
Paterno was a singular man. His life was an examined life, the way Socrates counseled when he said an unexamined life was a virtually useless one. He was measured in words and in deeds. He speaks in his autobiography of how one should connect the dots from the past to the present, not just forward from the present. Simply because it will not be reflective, wise or knowledgeable enough without the inputs from the past. He cites Steve Jobs for the dots analogy who probably should have cited Socrates.
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