Friday morning flew by; I was so engrossed in the mediation process. These sessions are confidential, so I can"t tell you the specifics, but I can tell you that all major issues were resolved in the first half hour. And then it took another five hours to resolve the nitty-gritty stuff. As they say, the devil is in the details.
There"s always one thing that jams the process up right at the very end, and it"s something that seems stupid to the rest of us. One time it was a DVD collection, another time it was a microwave, this time it was a harp. I"ve come to realize that it"s not the object that matters, it"s what it represents. It"s a symbol--of the last concession they will ever make, the last fight they will ever have, the last connection between them. By walking away from that trivial o
