Protecting, improving, establishing and reestablishing eroded practices of respect, kindness, grace can be strengthened, not viewed as embarrassing and weak. Many of us feel touched, if not directly affected by a world that seems to have gone off the rails. It seemed customary once for us to look out for each other, little things like, holding doors, buses, small moments of goodwill, a kind of solidarity that helped promote a world of decency. We still do but it doesn’t feel as common.