Words to live by

I’m no longer content to ask, “What do you think about X?” Instead, I ask, “How did you come to believe X?”

The emerging Octavia made three rules for herself: Don’t leave your home without a notebook, paper scraps, something to write with. Don’t walk into the world without your eyes and ears focused and open. Don’t make excuses about what you don’t have or what you would do if you did, use that energy to “find a way, make a way.”