I was reading a great article in this morning’s New York Times about David Bronner, the financial genius who runs Retirement Systems of Alabama, and made me think of a conversation I had this month while visiting in Chicago.

I was staying at a Passionist monastery on Harlem Avenue, helping to plan a conference to be held at Loyola in 2011, when I met one of the Brothers who lives there.  We got to talking during breakfast and he asked where I was living.  When I told him, he looked at me and said, “Do you know David Bronner?”.  I laughed and said I knew of him, that practically everyone in the state did.  It turns out this Brother was a classmate of Bronner, and said he still talked with Bronner about once a month.  Small world…