Absent from ‘The World of Pond Stories’ by Dr. Stewart Bitkoff are politically-polarizing statements that these days pass for mainstream discussion and describe the plethora media sound bytes that seemingly inundate my day to day life. In other words, reading these stories was a refreshing reprieve from the endless cycle of jingoistic and sensationalistic rhetoric.
To further elaborate, I found at the heart of each story an open-ended reflection oftentimes, at least in my initial reading, an opportunity to reflect on human nature namely our relationship with ourselves, the world around us inclusive of all its denizens human and non. One thing which Dr.Bitkoff does and has done well over the course of his many books is to present the reader
To further elaborate, I found at the heart of each story an open-ended reflection oftentimes, at least in my initial reading, an opportunity to reflect on human nature namely our relationship with ourselves, the world around us inclusive of all its denizens human and non. One thing which Dr.Bitkoff does and has done well over the course of his many books is to present the reader