I give you two important quotes and/or notables that replay in my mind as of late: 1. We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. - Anonymous
2. Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry or compose music or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity. - from Anna Quindlen's Summer Coming