I had grabbed lunch and was hurrying back to my desk when I saw something in the courtyard off Bay Street in Toronto. There were three women dressed in outrageous hoop dresses, acting a pantomime (of what appeared to be a plot of jealousy and betrayal) on platform stilts about 20 feet in the air. Their story was absolutely compelling. I could see even the most hurried executives reluctantly stopping, then fully being swept away by the theatre of it all. It was extraordinary. It reminded me of what it meant to be human in an often de-humanizing environment. It paused my day, and I was grateful.
