Short But Sweet

The brief season of high-altitude streams

While killing time in a Starbucks in Portland, Oregon, not long ago, I was idly eavesdropping on two businessmen when one--invoking the fashionable cliché--said their problems might be solved if they could start thinking outside the box. The other, younger man replied, "Dude, there's no box." I caught his eye and gave him a 1960's-vintage clenched-fist salute, but he may have been too young to know what it meant. He glanced away uncomfortably, probably assuming that my next move would be to stagger over and ask for spare change. Read more – offline – from the current issue; subscribe to FRR.