It's an opportunity to retell the narratives of my realities in a spiritually charged setting, reinforcing and strengthening my goals and purpose.

Not only do we continue to tell and retell the same tired stories, but we are now doing so with a frenzy and a fury that, frankly, verges on camp.

Allowing me to believe that the private people we have loved and lost in our families, and the public figures we have respected in our history, just as Abraham Lincoln wanted to believe, really can live on, so long as we pledge to tell and to retell the stories of their lives.

And Bush, while of course having no such experience of his own, could retell some of his father s stories when he was the head of the CIA in the 1970 s. Not to be left out, Europeans could use the film s romantic shots of Istanbul to open up about whether Turkey will ever join their club.