A German architect, Mies, used to say of his buildings, "God is in the detail." That's what I thought when I realized watching Michael Jackson's public memorial on Tuesday that the singer's five surviving brothers, serving as pallbearers, each had donned a single, beaded glove.
Rituals and symbols can be so powerful: Broken glass everywhere at a Jewish wedding, the jumping of a broom at another; white-gloved debutantes at a coming-out ball, and veiled second-graders wearing the same on the occassion of a first communion.
Even more than some of the infinitely moving performances - Stevie's plea, John Mayer's instrumental - the sight of the brothers Jackson with their hands sheathed in MJ's signature sequins just seemed the perfect touch.
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