A reflective essay about what endures when everything else fades. In “The Song That Wasn’t a Song,” Greg Luti wonders how future people might remember our laws and buildings, yet overlook the ordinary act of singing “Happy Birthday.” What the Future Will Remember I wonder sometimes about the future of the country that I am in, and whether future civilizations and cultures will even care about what mattered once to me. Now, I admit this is not from some random Sunday scroll wh