i feel like i've been living in
a city with no children in it Our building, takes a lot of maintenance, doesn’t it? And you know, as I’ve thought about it, the school keeps trying to expand their space around the stadium, and the money for this athletic program just keeps pouring in. …So, maybe we could sell our property, move to the ‘burbs and build an energy-efficient place to gather; just ditch all this trouble. After all, our old building is hard to cool, hard to heat, leaky and expensive; but maybe that’s the point . Perhaps this place is more than a monument to efficiency, a temple to consumerism. In this life, the lie we’re told over and over again is that we’re worth what we contribute to the economy, we’re worth what we can buy or sell. ( I’m convinced that’s one of the primary struggles with aging. The world insists we’re only worth what we can produce or consume, and as we can’t do that anymore, the world decides we’re not worth the trouble anymore and leaves us holding a broken promise....