Conflict, tolerance, resolution, the pools bar

Today I’ll appeal to even my regular readers – as well as the curious casuals – to bear with this brief Sunday–School/Bible –lesson– like “lesson” intended to capture the element of the concepts implicit in my wordy lead caption.

Conflict – can be of various varieties – physical, mental, cultural, leading to somethings lasting division but all born of “clashes between (disagreeable, sometimes irreconcilable) hostile or opposing elements,