Humility is a final virtue to name and beckon here. It is woven through lives of wisdom and resilience. It’s another word that has acquired a taint of ineffectuality. But my life of conversation has reintroduced it to me as a companion to curiosity and delight. Like humor, it softens us for hospitality and beauty and questioning and all the other virtues I’ve named in these pages. Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child,
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