Whose Blakey (and which grace)?

Blakey is Art, jazz bandleader of note and nurturer of talent, such as Wynton Marsalis amongst a raft of others. Listen to his Moan'in, no matter your current musical preference, and you'll have the best chance of appreciating his style.

Grace, per Webster's, is "beauty or charm of form", but, also, is denoted as "a sense of what is right and wrong". Actually the word is one of the longest definitions in the tome. Can one name another entry which so thoroughly combines aesthetic and moral import? From the beatified to the merely beautiful, it is a word of modifying significance.

Why not another fine fellow (or woman)? No good answer, I must confess, but let me duck by giving some alternatives of genius:

Samuel Mockbee

Irwin Miller

Sam Simon

(Young) T. Roosevelt

Bob Moses

Robert Caro

How much water-cooler banter do any of above folks receive? By the way, why are they all men (and what's wrong with women)?

Heroes.

Doesn't any man, such as I, have to have one (or more)? What do they represent? Courage without bravado, intelligence without pomposity, style without fashion & beauty with grace?

Are you lost on this prospect already? No doubt. Not much sizzle. Weighty tomes, after all, litter libraries collecting dust for a reason.

How about - besides the lofty precepts - idle clatter re golf, environmentally sustainable products & more than liberal doses of sarcastic prose? Sound a bit more palatable? Promise that next entry will be so directed, but the initial effort was compelled to be explanatory as to title.

Lets start a tradition of ending with something aspiring to beauty from my own hands.