I was going through old boxes of stuff from the basement — and came across all my Calvin & Hobbes books! Score.

As a kid, I loved these books. As an adult, I love them even more. Especially when I can appreciate something like this that likely zinged right past my head in youth:

If you haven’t connected with the sage advice of Bill Watterson lately, I highly suggest it. (You can do so in this Reddit thread, dig up your old books, or buy/borrow perhaps?) Especially when something like this might have new meaning in adulthood:

But nothing will ever beat the philosophic observations of a boy and his stuffed tiger. For whatever reason, listening to their innocence makes life lessons go down a bit smoother. Reading these this weekend help ground me and re-frame life a bit. Maybe it will do the same for you — [eric]