just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.

First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out—
     
Because they were already coming for DEI, unions, gay marriage, EPA regulations, food safety, climate change, gun control, federal disaster relief, lower drug prices, books, journalists, protestors, trans people & contraception.

i want to be exactly rich enough to buy a spacious, perfectly organized kitchen, where i’m not forced to stack all my pots and pans in a psychologically unmanageable way. and no richer