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by Laurie Frankel

No one thinks our tracks are a great or fair system, but great and fair systems are expensive, and tracks-with-flaws are all we can afford.

“Everyone needs air, water, food, shelter, and clothing all the time, Monday. Everyone needs care when they’re sick or hurt, love when they’re sad or scared, someone to tell them no or stop when they’re being unsafe. Everything else people need sometimes—and it’s a lot—is special. All of us have special needs.”

“A spectrum is a classification system that arranges everyone or everything between two opposite extremes, which means a spectrum, by definition, includes everyone. For a spectrum to be a thing, we all have to be on it.”

You’d be surprised how much valuable information the internet has, too, in addition to all the lies and yelling and stuff for sale.

We still have a pizza place, and it is called Bourne’s Best Pizza which is technically true but not that impressive since it would be just as accurate to call it Bourne’s Worst Pizza since it is also Bourne’s Only Pizza.

the way to get less stupid is to read more books.

I like Monday's simplicity.

I have seen that he jogs on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings which he must do to increase his longevity because that is the only reason a person would jog.

And challenge is story.

Not labeling folders is very bad, but it is not as bad as labeling folders incorrectly or ambiguously.

It’s not that the well-connected, well-endowed, and powerful don’t have troubles. It’s that they’re so much more likely to have earned them than the ones who are isolated, poor, and defenseless.

Are we more angry or more desperate?