A few months ago on this blog I urged you to seize the day. (See Time and the Taxi Man Jan 5, 2017) I thought of those words recently at a memorial service my husband and I attended for our neighbor David who had died suddenly a week before. For decades we and David shared the same East End Avenue address. By Manhattan standards our building – with 16 floors and 200 apartments – is relatively small and the happy consequence is that we know a great many of our neighbors...