Eddie Pinero

There are times where keeping that ship afloat takes everything we have.

But it's understanding that that is a season and not the way things are.

Dreaming allows us to start moving in the right direction, even if it's one small step at a time.

Building today piece by piece, something we can stand on tomorrow, a staircase to the version 2.0 and 3.0 and 4.0.

The future depends on what we do today, and so we must create space for that seed to grow.

We must chart the course and captain the ship.

to the next horizon.

There's a notebook in the top drawer of a desk that hasn't been moved in years.

Second drawer down, left side, under things that used to matter.

It's black, leather, still stiff at the spine like it's never been asked to open all the way.

If you did open it, you'd find one sentence written slowly and carefully.

Quote, this is where everything changes.

End quote.

And then nothing.

No second page or mistakes.

No proof that anything ever followed.

Just the idea of a beginning.

He remembers the night he bought it.

Sitting on the edge of his bed, turning it over in his hands like it meant something.

So much promise.