“I am of the persuasion that opinions are okay, as long as they stop at the boundaries of another person. My mother once told me a story of an immigrant who, upon arriving to New York for the first time, ran off of the ship that carried him there and began to dance wildly, flailing his arms in all directions, tossing his luggage into the air, and so on and so forth. All was well, until his cane happened to hit the tip of another man’s nose. The man turned to him and said, “Yes in New York we are all free, but your freedom ends where the tip of my nose begins.” And I apply that story into the opinion-forming area of life. I remember that opinions are okay, if they must be formed, about everything in the world, but that freedom ends where the tip of the next person’s nose begins.” -C. Joybell C.