Manifesto, or at least Words of Note

"Here is some advice that is worth remembering, from Edward Everett Hale, Helen Keller's friend--

'I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything.
I will not refuse to do the something
that I can do.'"

Sometimes you think you're just retro-cataloging crap-assed musty collective biographies (e.g. a 24-year-old copy of Helen and Teacher by Joseph P. Lash), and then you open to the verso and out jumps something that makes you think. I don't mean, it makes you think something, but it makes you think.

And so I sit and think a minute, about the something that I can do.

Maybe I can do it.