Sometimes, mostly in my wildest dreams, I think that the WSJ is reading the HomaFIles for inspiration
For example, yesterday we posted about The unintended consequences of “non-essentiality”
This morning, the WSJ ran an opinion piece observing that no one is dispensable.
The author claims to have had an epiphany when watching his daughter put together large jigsaw puzzles.
His prior disposition was that a jigsaw puzzle was:
A picture that consists of far more nonessential than essential pieces.
More parts of Mona Lisa’s background, for instance, than her enigmatic smile.
He admits that in his life, he saw many people (and things) the same way that he saw jigsaw puzzles … lots of uninteresting background pieces.
But, stirred by his daughter’s puzzle-making, a light bulb went off…
Life is a jigsaw puzzle, but I’ve been looking at its pieces entirely wrong.
There are no dispensable persons.
A background piece is no less essential than one completing Mona Lisa’s painted smile,.
A gap anywhere destroys integrity everywhere.
His derived principle for life:
That I cannot see everyone’s essential nature makes it no less so.
This is my challenge: to look for unique beauty in others, to trust it’s there when hardest to discern
Amen, brother.
The Homa Files 
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