Mr Gill describes an incident in which his daughter, then aged six or seven, complained that she was being "bullied" after three younger boys teased her about a game she was playinginthepark.
One starts to appreciate the small gifts of coexistence that would have seemed utopian to our ancestors: the interracial family playinginthepark, the comedian who lands a zinger on the commander in chief, the countries that quietly back away from a crisis instead of escalating to war.