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from the publisher’s desk
Ginnie Roeglin
COSTCO REMAINS FOCUSED on saving you money on
top-quality products as well as on a variety of services for
your home and business.
For example, Costco members save an average of $200
per year on home insurance and $400 on auto insurance
when they switch to our Ameriprise Insurance.
The rate for our Capital One Online Savings program is
one of the best among the top national banks. Costco mem-
Ginnie Roeglin is Senior Vice
bers are not charged fees, and they receive a bonus when
President, E-Commerce and
they open their first account with a minimum deposit.
Publishing, and Publisher of
Members get exclusive rates and low payments on boat
The Costco Connection.
and RV loans (page 51), with no loan-processing fees, and
savings of $130 to $190. Executive Members also receive a $100 Costco Cash card when
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on “Services.”
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from the editor’s desk
David W. Fuller
THIS MONTH’S INTERVIEW with Michael J. Fox
is a story about optimism, about being positive,
about reassessing priorities as circumstances
change. Overarching all these themes in this man’s
life is one more theme: transcendence.
Transcendence is one of those concepts that
may be easy to grasp intellectually but difficult to
actually practice. Opportunities for transcendence
abound in daily life: to breathe deeply and drive
on, despite all the idiot drivers on the road; to
accept the tattoo on your daughter’s ankle; to
focus on your job, without letting it completely define your life.
Most of us take advantage of such opportunities to transcend, and therefore
control, our responses to what happens around us. Transcendence becomes more
problematic as we broaden our view beyond our daily lives, to issues of health, to the
political arena, to the social and economic world of which we all are a part, regardless
of income or locale.
So, just what is transcendence? How does it differ from denial? How does one
transcend without being selfish? Is it a matter of always putting the past behind us,
and, if so, what about the importance of being grounded in the past? Is transcendence
the same as transformation?
If you think I have the answers to these questions, think again. I merely raise them
because I believe that what Michael J. Fox has to say about his life—and what I think
he intends to convey in his May 7 television special—may provide some clues to the
practice of transcendence.
And transcendence may be just what the doctor is ordering for all of us at this
particular time. C
David W. Fuller is Assistant
Vice President, Publishing, and
Editor of The Costco Connection.
