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Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
―Viktor E. Frankl (Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor)
I just finished reading Main Street for the third time. First, I was 20 (college), then 25 (just married) and last week at the uniquely tender and remarkably nostalgic age of fifty-two.
Lewis’ character, Carol helped me understand both why I had to leave South Dakota and why the prairie is so doggedly a part of my identity (and my art)…even though I left nearly three decades ago.
― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
