The most important quality in life, of life, of anything

I had a different story drafted for today, but then something happened…

This will be my shortest story on Medium.

I’m in New Orleans right now for a couple of days. I love New Orleans and wrote about it just a few days ago: America’s most authentic city (in my experience!)

We were walking back from the restaurant to our hotel. The street was dark but there were lanterns on some houses! Lanterns! Gas lanterns, the kind that lit up the same streets a hundred years ago, maybe two…