“Stay here long enough ... stay here long enough to revive your hope, to drop your terminal cool, to give up defensive half-truths, to creep, carve, bash your way through, stay here long enough to see what is right for you, stay here long enough to become strong, to try the try that will make it, stay here long enough to make the finish line, it ma

We yield. We get back to navigating our crafts. But every once in a while, exhaustion can turn into despair. The tiny flame, which takes all our resources to shield, blows out in an unexpected gust. This is when it helps to think of more than ourselves. It helps to see the earth workers, the artists, the mothers, the lovers, the singers, the poets,