Thriving...in Spite of It

While scrolling through some old meeting notes eternally memorialized on iCloud this morning,  (along with dozens of shopping lists: delete, delete, delete....) I discovered one very brief and obscure entry from a seminar I attended. Just one line. All it said was "Boston - Shannon's Rules." I laughed out loud (literally LOL'd), remembering how the speaker -- an attorney -- related the meaning of this phrase he coined himself, referring to a behavioral phenomenon his childhood in Boston.  At the Shannon family home, you see, the many brothers and sisters living under the same roof had, by necessity, developed a sort of tribal law, comprised of all their own rules for every game. In a kids kingdom, the majority rules, especially when the majority is all in the same family. No matter what the game, from tag to kick ball, they had their own set of rules at the Shannon house, and every guest was at the mercy of them, no matter how bizarre they happened to be. "When