In tough times, the world needs the writer, the poet, the weaver of tales now more than ever. If your writing can ease a little personal pain, or take me away from a long and dark day, you, for those few minutes, are perhaps the strongest person in the world because you were able, with your words, to stop this current nightmare that is part of my daily life, a never ending story hard to turn off without the brief interlude of a gentle poem or touching story.