Take Your Hits and Keep Going

I stumbled across a really fantastic blog that just publishes letters that the editor thinks are deserving of a wider audience. Tonight I read just a few as I tried to avoid reading yet another dissertation on NCLB (if the number of dissertations I read on NCLB are any indication, we'll have that whole issue sorted in no time). There was a really touching letter Iggy Pop wrote to a young girl, an incredible letter you must read to the end a former slave wrote to his former owner, and an unbelievably interesting letter on the meaning of life ("no show, however good, could conceivably be good forever").

Sometimes I think I should have been an art major in my undergrad and figured out how to develop a skill where there was a moderate amount of raw talent (okay, maybe just an inkling of talent). But then I read letters like this (F. Scott Fitzgerald to his editor!) and I believe without question in the power of the written word and just how much I love when the words come together just so (mine or someone else's). I think an English degree was probably the right choice!