The Stories I Tell...

 I'll start with two axioms.    The first goes thus: “ No man is an island .”   The second axiom is “ Life Na per head .”        The first axiom is a popular one that basically means humans need each other. According to this translation, no one has  all  that he needs to survive. He needs another person's knowledge. He needs tools produced by someone else. He cannot possibly produce everything he wants and therefore needs to trade with another person.         But that's just the foundation of the axiom. It is more than that. In fact, there are several levels of how humans are interwoven with one another. Scientists say man is a social creature. He always seeks out others to form relationships. That's probably why we have words such as community, couple, citizens, family, associations, guild. The list goes on.         However, of particular interest to me, is another level of this axiom; our responsibility for one another.         Let's take a look at some of the wor