Sometimes your buddies can piss you off but then they send you something to help you take heart. My buddy sent me this after my taxonomically challenged post last night. Many thanks.
e e cummings (from a letter, 1935):
to be nobody but yourself –
in a world which is doing its best
night and day
to make you everybody else –
means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight,
and never stop fighting.
(I’m still taking a sabbatical from reading his emails lest they too exert too much force and pull me into becoming “everybody else”)
