Status Updates From We Loved It All: A Memory o...

This is a strange book. There is lots I like and find compelling, other bits I can only really appreciate given my interest in how differently others see the world (even if I don’t agree)

“For a parent, the probability that you won’t be around to witness your child’s aging and dying is a partial comfort. But even that meager solace is compromised. You won’t be around to see their decline, true. But you also won’t be around to protect them.”

“For a parent, the probability that you won’t be around to witness your child’s aging and dying is a partial comfort. But even that meager solace is compromised. You won’t be around to see their decline, true. But you also won’t be around the protect them.”

“Our economy, like our life support, is derived from nature in its entirety. Even so, our young adults are taught that nature is a separate domain. That it’s collective is a distance irrelevance. They need to carry a torch of competition and specialization into the urban and manufactured spaces. The battlefield of earning. Bend the field to their will, and make it furnish them with riches.”