A man in a smoking jacket on subway plays Bach cello suites, beautifully…

The sign next to the cellist has his name – Eric Robert Jacobson. I think of the thousands of hours of practice-practice-practice he has to have spent, the hopes he and his parents had for his future. Did he ever get to perform at Carnegie Hall?

I don’t want to get on the arriving train even though I am hopelessly late to the office that manages the Very Rich Man’s money.

And so I don’t…