ABSTRACT
Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow. Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, falls the shadow.
T.S. Eliot
I am going to break a habit of a lifetime and actually ask for something. I do hope that you do not actually recoil in horror when I make the following requests: please God, do not let me die in the local garden center without attempting to make a difference in someone’s life. Please do not let me lose the will to live before I finish this book, please let me be authentic and real, and, for heaven’s sake, please do not let me set back relations between the United States and the United Kingdom to the levels that are unseen since the Revolutionary War.
