“I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.”
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Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.