Mark Nepo

No, there's not.

That's still a masterpiece.

We're just tired and we got to rest so we can refresh and take it in again.

And that's part of our journey as well is to tend things, not push to tend and not push.

So I think that, and then also there is just that not everything every day is going to be while life is divine and always miraculous again, because we're human.

we come in and out of being able to fully apprehend it.

There's a wonderful story from Einstein, was recalling, it was a conversation with him about his early development of his mind.

And he shared that at the age of 11, he, in a glimpse of intuition, grasped all of Euclidean geometry.

And he said, and I knew the next day would be dull of necessity.

but we have these ones like life is like the ocean there's these crests and these swells and the waves crash and because we're not always on the crest of a wave it doesn't mean there's something wrong and so by keeping the heart open we can discover the extraordinary in the ordinary mark you have now written 25 plus books i'm holding a couple of here in front of the camera that

Can you get into that line?

When I was undergraduate, actually just to back up a bit.

So when I was in high school,

I first started writing because my first love was a year ahead of me and she went to college and fell in love with someone else.

And so it was my first heartache and I was devastated and I wasn't a loner, but I hadn't experienced a real friend yet until I got to college.

And so I started writing as a way to deal with the heartache.

And I realized pretty quickly, I wasn't just talking to myself.

I had begun

A conversation with life and with the mysteries of life and the difficulties of life and the wonders.

And so that was the beginning of my writing.