One fun thing about having a toddler is how relentlessly they point out all public services in eyesight at any given moment.

Mail trucks! Fire engines! Playgrounds! Buses! Libraries! Bridges! Ambulances!

And they're right! Public goods are amazing.

It's like walking around with a small @rortybomb, all the time.

Oh my god how could I have forgotten garbage trucks. Garbage trucks! Toddlers treat them with the sense of complete wonder they deserve.

We saw a parked fire truck recently that we insisted on hugging. Then the fire fighters let us sit in the seat and it was so overwhelming we burst into tears, like seeing the face of the divine. The mortal mind can only hold so much.