I can't remember the last time I wrote something of substance. I've taken a lot of time to write a lot of things--op-ed articles included, naturally--but rarely do I have the opportunity to tell a story. I'm not quite sure what the proper medium is for a story these days. Nor am I certain of who still takes the time to read stories, considering their infrequent appearance in the media. (Can you tell I am consumed by journalistic theory these days?)
There are untold stories. There are unshared ideas. There are things that have yet to be articulated, things that sit in people's heads accumulating dust... Sometimes I think I could devote my life to new ideas and the people behind them.
These ideas and people deserve the space of a book. They deserve the length, breadth and depth that pages of text (well, not exclusively) can offer. Most of all they deserve honor. They deserve character and context.
I teach with my whole self--I convey ideas from my entire mind to the entire mind of another person. New ideas deserve to be represented in no less of a fashion.
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