When the gap becomes untenable, they change the subject. Wealth concentrates while we fight over culture wars. Your attention is being sold. Look up. ...
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There is a Grottos Pizza somewhere in my memory that exists outside of time. The booth changed depending on the crowd. Sometimes it was just the three of us, since my siblings are much older. Sometimes my grandparents joined, and the table would stretch longer.
There is no preparing for the weight of it. You can know it's coming, watch it approach like weather on the horizon, and still be stunned when it finally arrives. Grief doesn't knock. It enters like it owns the place.
There's a peculiar paradox at the heart of human nature. We spend our lives constructing reality—careers, relationships, identities—only to invest equal energy trying to exit it. Every July, hundreds of thousands descend on San Diego for Comic-Con, transforming into characters who never existed.
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