Your father collects little phrases like the person who picks up pennies off the sidewalk. Once he overheard a woman on the bus saying: “I love the idea of being a cheetah, because they run really fast. But it feels like a stressful life.” He loved that—it feels like a stressful life. We’d say it back and forth to each other, when we’d talk about how we should move to LA, or get more into activism, or how if we’d known then what we know now, we’d have bought a house in 2014 for sure. Three houses. Six houses. Wish we had six houses. But it feels like a stressful life.
