The eternal summer question that no rabbi can answer: Will I finally hit a home run this year?
I was six or seven years old when I first dared to dream of hitting a home run. Nixon was president. Kissinger was National Security Adviser. Le Duc Tho chain-smoked at the Paris Peace Conferences…
Assessment
This piece turns a childhood memory of wanting to hit a home run during the Nixon era into a universal meditation on longing and disappointment. The author uses the unanswerable question as a lens for examining how we hold onto small dreams across decades, even when life offers no resolution. The coming story likely explores whether that childhood wish ever mattered beyond the wanting itself.