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I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

Sometimes I step back and ask myself big questions, like, what is the significance of art?

What is the value of scholarship? What's the use of philanthropy? What's the point of

devoting money, time, and energy to big cultural institutions? I was thinking about these

questions the other day during one of my daily visits to the Metropolitan Museum.

And as I was thinking, I happened to walk

by one of the artworks that I look at most often. It doesn't have a title. It's made from fragments of a

marble grave monument, a steel eye from around 400 to 375 BCE from a cemetery in Athens, Greece. This grave marker shows a seated woman holding an

infant. It's not the look of the piece that captures my attention, but it's inscription,

which is provided in a plaque. One thing I've learned about myself is that I'm moved most deeply by words. I can look at

things, I can listen, but in the end, it's always words that strike me to the core.

The inscription of the grave marker explains what we're looking at.

It reads,

My daughter's beloved child is the one I hold here,

the one that I held on my lap while we looked at the light of the sun when we were alive,

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