...that children hear “Follow your dreams” throughout their early stages. By the time they’re in their teens the advice should shift to “Follow your dreams but remember to pay your rent.”

...that, even when there is the possibility that the person you are training will nefariously sabotage you to get your job, a good manager always trains his replacement.

...that Memorial Day is not about honoring the dead but about discovering who they were when they were alive and marveling at the complexity of those who came before.

...that Britney Griner’s change of mind about her country puts our strange ignorance of the many freedoms we have as Americans into perspective so take a beat.

...that the answer to the question “What did I do to deserve this?” is “You lived long enough to endure it.” Any other answer is a fairy tale or self flaggelation.