twenty-eight years and a million words
We're home, and it's turned bitterly cold. Yesterday's 8°C in St. Catharines has turned to -12°C in Toronto. Not as bad as the -44°C one province over, but 20°C in a couple of hours is a bit much.
It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row