Julia Gaughan writes from Lawrence, Kansas, where she lives with her family and books and cats and dog and from which she travels as much as possible. She can be found online through Medium and @julia_gaughan on Twitter.
The Greater Good
You know that saying about if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day but if you teach a man to fish, he’ll feed himself until the corporations kill all the fish through pollution or unsustainable farming practices and he’ll die because of the lack of universal healthcare to treat his mercury-poisoned blood?
It doesn’t really roll off the tongue.
You know that saying about how a penny saved is a penny earned even though that penny saved doesn’t feed your crying children or pay for your prescription or put the gas in your car to get to your job that only gives you a raise when the minimum wage goes up and can’t earn any interest when it’s just helping stem the tide of overdrafts?
But has anyone tried professional football?