Incisive Observation
I admire people who can make a quality observation quickly on their feet. One such example occurred yesterday while reading Christopher Buckley’s memoir about the passing of his parents, Losing Mom and Pup.
Buckley recounts a conversation between the columnist Mary McGrory and Daniel Patrick Moynihan upon learning of President Kennedy’s slaying in Dallas in 1963. (A clear recollection of that awful day remains seared into my 4th grade memory.)
McGrory said, “We’ll never laugh again.” Moynihan replied, “Mary, we’ll laugh again…but we’ll never be young again.”
No matter what age a person was at the time, we all grew somewhat older that afternoon.