Potential

Consider the magnificent potential of human creativity. Before there was a Sistine Chapel ceiling there was a hesitant sculptor who nervously grasped an inauspicious palate of paint. From within an endless mishmash of potential piano keystrokes a sickly young man found beautiful order and from that materialized the works of Chopin. A sea of words and letters had no meaning until the Bard of Avon deftly picked and chose just the right ones to tell the greatest stories of an age. A million scenes unfolded around a Paris train station but a man with a Leica saw another man leaping and Derrière la gare de Saint-Lazare was born in an instant.

A child, right this very moment, is beginning to think of the world in ways no one before her ever has. She will give us something unheard of, something monumental and the world will never be the same. I can’t wait to discover her gift to us all.