Happy 80th, Joan Didion. Thank you for making things worth celebrating, even decades after you made them. “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear” (from “Why I Write,” 1976). I wish more of us would take time to do this, to touch the desire and fear in ourselves and in one another, to understand. Our world would be better. We would be better to each other.