But it is a lonely kind, when you look at it straight, because it is importance as function, as replaceability-in-theory, as the thing an organization would have to hire someone else to do.

The garden taught me a different kind, and I did not have a name for it until that heat wave.

It is the importance of the hand next to yours in the bucket line.

No one in that row could have been replaced by a hire, because we were not performing functions; we were being present to each other, in the heat, in the work, and presence has no substitute.

Sal could not have hired a stand-in to be Sal.