"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens." — E. B. White One of the things I should have learned early in my career is to not engage with the study halls. Or perhaps on an even grander scale, I should never speak with sophomores in any capacity. Somewhere at the bottom of a river a seed bounces down stream and comes to rest on wet mud. From that seed a tree will eventually raise itself towards the sun and change the very course of that river that first