Musings on the State of the Art

Every day thousands of people leave behind everything they know, and travel, to someplace else. The reasons behind each move are certainly different, and I can barely talk authoritatively about my own move – but I do know that when you’re at the other end, at the beginning, you look to those that have crossed the bridge before you. You hope to see them in a place where you’d want to see yourself. Here’s the list of people, that folks at the beginning of their journey, are probably looking towards right now….

Hope Springs Eternal

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin’d from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

-Alexander Pope,
An Essay on Man, Epistle I, 1733