"If you find yourself overwhelmed or in distress, embrace that. It may well mean that you aren’t yet blind, that you have a conscience, that in a time of unbelievable cruelty, you’re choosing instead to be human."

This was still the case in the late 80s when my husband interviewed with ESRI. He didn’t take the job and the palm trees blowing in a brown wind that obscured the San Gabriels was the reason.

I can’t remember who said it, but like 10 years ago someone said “if public libraries didn’t already exist, the concept would be treated today as preposterous left-wing gobbledygook,” and I think about that a lot