I have ambitions, at year's end, of issuing lists of my favorite things from 2007, but let's be realistic. I am full of interests and plans, more so, I imagine, than the average Joe, but once they are pumped through the funnel of my free time, what comes out the other end is just a fraction, like the water flow from one of the annoying environmentally-friendly shower heads they put in our dorms when I was in college.

Better to just toss things out as I go. One of my favorite columns in the Sunday NYTimes is Modern Love in the Sunday Styles section, and catching up on two or three months worth of those this morning, I read this one, which I really loved: "The Exchange: Kindness for Rudeness."

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