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There is so much plasticity and prudence today, but when you come across the authentic,

such as a little kid bawling because his sister kicked him, it restores your interest in life.

He isn't trying to raise money for a good cause. He's only expressing the injustice of the situation

he would like to smack her, but he knows that his mother, the sheriff, would see it and punish him,

rather than punish Jessica for her attack, and hitting her might spare him, having to go through

expensive therapy in years to come, but he does not. Perhaps he'll be a stand-up comic instead.

I find authenticity in church, in the prayers, in the psalm, and last Sunday we sang how great

thou art, and it was so joyful it reduced me to rubble. We sang all four verses and the chorus

built each time around, and the third and fourth choruses were so euphoric. They could have

melted a stone-cold atheist, and my bass voice got shaky hearing those sopranos soaring. People

held their arms in the air. They were freed from their Episcopalian decorum into realms of joy.

I get teared up now, just talking about it. On my way home, I went into Trader Joe's, and when the

cashier said, How are you today, my dear? I was moved. New York women in their twenties do not

address a male stranger as my dear, and okay, maybe she was trying to sell me on coming back to

Trader Joe's, but it sounded genuine to me, and after I paid, she said, Thank you, my dear,

and I stifled the impulse to pat her shoulder. There still are boundaries,

after all, but her lightness coming on the heels of the hymn, it touched me.

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