1. God

2. God may be guilty. That doesn’t negate my guilt or preclude my leading an ethical life.

3. After surviving the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel asked a rabbi “How can you believe in God after what has happened?”  the Rabbi’s answer was “How can you not believe in God after what has happened.”  See #2 above.

4. to be human is to be guilty.  This is what I take as the meaning of “man’s first disobedience,” and also Kafka’s the Trial.

5. And yet there is grace, unmerited, for me at every moment.

6. What Lindsey wrote, especially the prayer she quotes

7. Friendship

8. Sacrifice, which is also to make sacred

9. People to hold and a heart to hold them

10. Ludwig von Beethoven born today in 1770