Gone but not forgotten

A spontaneous sweep through obits from the last few years is sobering

“[The] growing good of the world is partly

dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things

are not so ill with you and me as they might

have been is half-owing to the number who lived

faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

—George Eliot, Middlemarch

Jeanette Bishop: Wr…