“At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.”
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
