The Goodness and Beauty of the Private Life

Instead of sharing everything with everyone, reserve your private life for friends and family.
The Goodness and Beauty of the Private Life
In the age of social media, where public and private boundaries crumble, privacy is a precious resource. Biba Kayewich
Jeff Minick
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In the film “Finding Forrester,” young wannabe writer Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) asks his future mentor William Forrester (Sean Connery) about a novel he’d written decades earlier. When Jamal presses Forrester for details, the old writer cuts him off, “What were you going to say? I should tell you everything about me?”

Jamal answers, “Well, I told you about me.”

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.