In mid-October, I flew to Oakland, California, to meet my grandson, Felix Kyle Lueders-Morrison. He was born on October 6 at a hospital in Berkeley, to my son Jesse and daughter-in-law Lauren. He was, in my arms, “this seven-pound universe, full of all possibility,” to quote the late songsmith Marques Bovre.

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