Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?
Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.
You have my whole heart. You always did.
Teaching writing is a hustle.
I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.