Status Updates From The Cost of Knowing

Mrs. Zaccari looks up and down the street, before stepping forward and continuing in a lowered voice. "If you do decide to do a paper route, you could get some exercise and take Eli's old bike. We were about to sell it in a garage sale next Saturday, but if either of you can use it, it's yours."
Isaiah and I look at each other. He's realizing how much money the Zaccaris must have to just be handing out bikes.

MOM AND DAD USED to tell us, when we were still young enough to believe people can understand anything about the universe, that people are always chasing after impossible things. We want what we can't have. We ask questions we don't fully understand, looking for answers we wouldn't be able to handle. People pay accountants and psychologists to give them power over the here and now.