It’s funny you should send a note about the authors we think about.

I am taking a walk, before another day of large effort in the move, and I started thinking about a Virginia Woolf quote I came across this time last year, which would return to me during some intense moments that would follow:

“The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.”

It doesn’t quite feel such a prophetic statement anymore. A year later, when there’s a little more light on my days to come, I’ve realized she was right—

Darkness is not a permanent state of being.

And when I stopped on the sidewalk to read your message initially, I looked up to see this.