It’s helpful to encourage myself with an inspiration I share not just with fellow writers and readers, but with everyone who from time-to-time needs reminding that we are all truly capable of great, bridging and unifying, and enduring things.
I quote Carl Sagan: “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
And we are!