Most of the time, growth is invisible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then, one night after a concert, another musician approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not a fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A peer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Someone who knows what it costs to arrive at a simple melody. Someone who has also spent lonely Tuesdays wondering whether the work is improving or merely accumulating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I like where your writing is going.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sentence is only seven words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet it outweighs a hundred compliments from strangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"