Terminal Advice, from the Sage of Warwick, Rhode Island

"We should not attempt to understand the world," said Harald Malmgren, about three weeks before his passing on February 13 of this year.  "It just is."

And yet Harald had an indefatigable moral compass.  He sinned, no doubt, many times, but it mattered to him that he sinned.  He belied the old maxim that "a good man cannot be a great man."