I love a sassy quotation. In "It's a Wonderful Life," an irate neighbor inspects a tree George Bailey crashed into but finds no damage. Assuming George is stinking drunk, he says, "You must mean two other trees!" I love that quotation! I wanted to fill a column with those zingers, but I couldn't. I got blindsided by beauty along the way. I can still remember every carefully-nuanced, precious little syllable in the voicemail left by ...
