It’s confounding that so many great things available to us go wasted, ignored, ungathered. We attend powerfully written plays that are free, rich talks by national authors, sessions on eye-opening, I-am-so-glad-I came subjects. And we see dozens of empty seats. We think of how moved and affected we have been from the experience and lament that “the people who should have been here aren’t.”
We wonder aloud, “Where is everybody?” How can so many smart people be so dumb to have ignored this event? They got the same publicity I did, …