Wise words from a bodega owner in San Francisco

Hello Reader, A bodega owner in San Francisco once told me, while I was complaining about the rain, that it washes away all the mess on the street and makes the grass green. I thought about that a lot this week, sitting in Bar Harbor where everything went wrong. Starting Over In Lamott’s book Bird by Bird (1994), she says we need to let go of perfection and write “shitty first drafts” that lead to the eventual brilliant piece. Everything starts somewhere. If you are starting over it takes a...