Maybe no one has noticed. Then again, maybe you have. The NY Times appears to have put up new pictures of all their regular columnists. It’s kind of interesting to see their faces now. One has a beard but didn’t before. Little things like that. They all seem a bit older, maybe even a bit wiser. That last part is harder to tell.
All except Maureen Dowd. Her photo looks just about the same. Maybe it is the same. Or maybe she had her face and hair done ahead of time to try and look exactly the same. Maybe she sat before the camera with the same tilt to her head and sly look in her eyes. It’s impossible to know…
But, for whatever reason, it bothers me. It bothers me that she either was able to convince the Times that she alone was exempt from a new photo. Or… maybe worse, I’m really not sure – that she had this great need to try and look exactly the same. As if time had no bearing in her life. Or as if we, the readers, could not cope with her aging or looking slightly different in a new photo, new pose, wrinkles perhaps, maybe a little wisdom in evidence. But no…..
Once Upon a Paradigm 