The Hug, the Handshake and the Chasm

Apr 23, 2025

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Sakata Kaidomaru struggling with a huge carp under a waterfall (image via Wikimedia: Public Domain)

We are living through a crisis of ritual greeting that the gratuitous innovation of modernity seems unable or unwilling to overcome; there is a chasm between the handshake and the hug and it is a travesty we should brook no longer.

I love a good handshake. …

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