one-up-manship. Maybe you have been unsuccessfully trying to keep up with the Joneses during the past year. Your goal has been the top rung of the ladder, a larger house, a bigger car; and in the race you have forgotten that “a man’s life consists not in the abundance of things which he possesses.” The scene is now an outbuilding or barn. A rope is dangling from a beam and a body has finished twitching with death throes. This is not being morbid. Life ends for all in one way or another as “it