Letters From The Editor

Editor: your article is the 2nd most viewed article on the site right now
Me: Whooop!
Editor: It’s right behind the ski slope toilet image!

Clearly my freelance career is in a great place.

I’d never have believed I’d see a wife of mine doting on a child of mine. It still amazes me every time I think of it. I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.

Gilead Marilynne Robinson

Currently doing the thing anyway

Excerpt from You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik

“Fear. That is what separates the hero from the common man. It’s crossing the room. It’s not complicated.”
“So what? Heroes talk to girls?”
“Some of them do, Cara, I’m sure. But that’s hardly the point. Come on. Push. Gilad, what’s the point?”
I looked up from my notebook, my heart beating fast. “You do the thing anyway,” I said.
“You do the thing anyway. Yes. Yes. You do it in spite of fear. You do the thing anyway. No matter what. Because you have to. Because you know it’s right. Because you believe it. Because by not doing it you’re betraying yourself.”
“You do it because it matters and how do you know it matters?”
“Because it scares you.” She smiled
“Because it scares you. You do it because it scares you. That’s the core of it all. That’s the center. That’s how you know. That’s the heart of the whole thing. The heart.”