First

Every new writing should be like the first run. The activities, both core to our identity as living beings, should share in the same endorphins, that same exhiliration of doing it again after a tragic pause. That same welcome pain. That slowness. That assessment, after months of avoidance, of what is wrong in our lives.

Despite my earlier words, a difference: one is for ourselves, the other for the widest possible audience. Strangely, it's the latter through which we are more selfish, less important, and completely human.