to be placed here. As the wife says, “I didnt bring myself to this. I was brought.”18 You did not ask to be a witness to your children and your neighbors. You did not volunteer to be responsible for others or to be your brother’s keeper. But none of that really matters. Because here you are, and here they are. And it is good. When the son begins to doubt the goodness of their lives, the father tells him, “I think it’s pretty good. It’s a pretty good story. It counts for something.”19
