“Please, please help me out,” she said. “Please. I’m trying to buy flowers for a funeral arrangement.”
She was African-American, middle-aged, wide-eyed. Her words were not addressed to me but to the whole subway car. The slightness of her build belied the strength of her voice. So many things are dying at the moment — an entire free-spending epoch is being laid to rest — that I wondered which particular burial she had in ...
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Interesting column about how the economic crisis invites us to turn inward and reflect on our lives. Starting with a subway scene where an African-American woman asks for money to buy flowers for a cousin's funeral, the author reaches back to classic works of literature to find solace from the Age of Excess.
I was disappointed that the author did not make a donation to the woman for her cousin's funeral. I probably would have. Yes, change comes from ... More »
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