Katie Holmes took her daughter Suri to meet mother and daughter Clinton at a fund-raiser.
LEFT, BY ALO CEBALLOS, RIGHT, BY LARRY MARANO, BOTH FROM GETTY IMAGES
Imagine great minds meeting. Something like the Yalta Conference, except without the recent tragedy of globally annihilating war. Nixon in China, minus Nixon. Einstein and Oppenheimer, only it doesn’t result in a godless technology that will surely end all humanity someday. What I’m trying to say is, picture important people coming together and creating a moment of communion, positivity, and, hopefully, change. Well, it happened. It did, America.
Hillary Clinton, one of the great earth movers of our age, held a fund-raiser for her presidential campaign in New York City yesterday, an event that Us Weekly describes as “family-friendly.” Among the many supporters and well-wishers who came out to throw some money at the cause were one Katie Holmes, an actress of some renown, and, because this was a family-friendly event, Holmes’s daughter, a small moon-child known to many as Suri Cruise. There is a photo on Instagram of Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise meeting Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea Clinton. It’s quite a photo.
What do you think was discussed in that moment? Did Suri Cruise explain, in sparkling prose, her foreign-policy ideas? Did Chelsea shake Suri’s small hand and feel some sort of charge, like she was being beamed back into the past and far ahead into the future? Did Katie whisper something supportive to Hillary, maybe something about how everyone back home in Ohio is rooting for her? Who knows! Who knows what was said, what happened. All we have is this Instagram photo and our imaginations.
Whatever was said, whatever happened, it’s good that they all met, isn’t it? I suppose it’s possible they’ve met before, but if not, I’m glad it finally happened. That feels right, somehow. That Suri should meet Chelsea, that Hillary should shake hands with Katie Holmes. They’ve all been through their own wars, haven’t they. They’ve all scraped and endured, let waves of press roll over them while they held their breath. It’s important for survivors to meet, to talk, to plan for a future it didn’t always seem like they had.
So this is good. Maybe someday Chelsea can describe to us what wondrous future Suri showed her as she clutched her hand, can give us some hopeful vision of what civilization is like in thousands of years. But if not? That’s O.K. too. At least Chelsea will know. Which will help her govern when it is, inevitably, her turn.
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Suri doesn’t care that her friend wore the exact same prairie-print oxford to their playdate, confident as she is that she will handily triumph later in People.com’s “Who Wore It Best?” poll.
