People Aren't Problems to Solve

Getting more of what you need sometimes requires treasuring what you already have.

Waterways #1 (1961) by Helen Lundeberg

Review a whole month of Ask Polly columns and you’ll discover a vast array of characters defined in terms of what they can and can’t do. Friends and lovers and parents and colleagues form a messy and confusing mob of humans who are rigid and punitive, who make mistakes and back away or never show up to begin with. I…