Like everyone else, with increasing responsibilities in my professional and personal lives and an ever-increasing load of what I had to read and write in any given day on any number of digital mediums, I began to make little compromises. I still tried to use email more like a note in an envelope—a social greeting with its own forms of politeness. But every note was becoming shorter and terser. There was no waiting for the perfect moment to write tranquil thoughts, the admittedly elusive goal of my former style. I just did my best at any given moment and hoped for cosmic forgiveness for failing
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