johnson wrote lectures for him for free. what he did was write his way to the stability of the truth. he just tried to describe accurately the world he tethered himself to that. many of his effort is him s contain that stability, realism, intense honest realism. one is that a man of genius is seldom ruined by himself. it was an impressive struggle. that is the final thing we would say about solitude, i mean come about character. the people who have character are not the people who climb an external climb. if you see this dr. seuss book it is about the external climb to success. the eulogy virtues is not about an external struggle, but the internal struggle about the things you fear about yourself. johnson took all the things he feared about himself, his sloth, his envy, and he wrote about them head-on and named them and grab them and they went away. whether it is lover suffering or self defeat, it is that same shape that is falling down and coming up. i think the people who h
that was a test. my father had told me stories from sky lab about he had always seen the fires in the amazon and people were clear-cutting it. i hadn t thought about it for 35 years. i remember when i was a kid, there were a lot of tv things about it about save the rainforest, shockingly you don t see much these day. boy, is it still burning and so was big areas of the green belt through central africa, but for me, the great epiphany came on this day. this was probably day eightish. it was the first time i had after having that information about the earth pour into your mind, i finally saw a place i knew personally very well. there is my house off a lake in austin, texas, i could also see houston where i grew up around nasa. i could see the gulf coast where i played on beaches as a kid, up in dallas where i had driven many times, i had driven and walked and biked those areas intimately. i knew the size of it. i knew how big it was. at the time, i could see the whole earth and
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