Fail Better<\/a>,\u201d Zadie Smith reminds the reader to remember \u201cthe literary canon is really the history of the second-rate, the legacy of honourable failures….The literature we love amounts to the fractured shards of an attempt, not the monument of fulfilment. The art is in the attempt….\u201d<\/p>\nWhat freedom that allows! Who needs one more horn player?\u00a0 Who needs another rendition of a beloved piece? Does the world need another musical composition?\u00a0 And, while we\u2019re at it, does the world need another blog post?<\/p>\n
These are the wrong questions, I’m discovering. \u00a0The world’s saturation level does not matter. \u00a0Our involvement in the world is what matters – our attempts to communicate and find a voice, our attempts to understand each other, sharing in the great conversation of what it is to be human, what it is to live and die and love and participate in life.<\/p>\n
I am choosing to believe there is room for all of our fractured shards.<\/p>\n
(Thank you, Zadie Smith!)<\/p>\n
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<\/a>In her essay \u201cFail Better<\/a>,\u201d Zadie Smith reminds the reader to remember \u201cthe literary canon is really the history of the second-rate, the legacy of honourable failures….The literature we love amounts to the fractured shards of an attempt, not the monument of fulfilment. The art is in the attempt….\u201d<\/p>\n