One of the hardest debts we ever have to square away can be an apology. Consider this an open payment toward crawling, ever so slightly, out of the red.
The reason it can’t be
formally deposited at the Bank of Humility is achingly simple: I don’t
know who I owe it to. Not by name, anyway. Nonetheless, someone specific
out there is overdue for an apology, and this is as good a time as any
to tender payment. Because this person - someone I only knew briefly
many years ago, and even then only in passing – also deserves the
respect of being addressed by name, I’m giving her one here and hoping
that an apology by any other name will still be as valid.
