I am always looking for something to inspire me – a song, a movie, a book, an experience. Those times are less frequent than I would prefer. I am not sure if the infrequency is a reflection of my callousness or the rarity of creative talent. Regardless the reason, I continue to scrounge and several times a year I get lucky.
This time, it was the book The Road. I see how Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize. He demonstrated the primacy and value of a loving relationship by placing it in a setting that was stripped of everything, including hope. The book was about a father and his son at the end of the world, after some unstated universal calamity where everything on earth was dead or dying. Even in that setting, though, the beauty of love and relationship was inspiring.
They boy was compassionate, sharing what little he had scrounged for survival.
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