Monday Morning inspiration
“But if there’s anything I can promise to keep doing, it’s to go out with the empty notebooks and to try and document what’s going on in the country—and I promise to do it even as the ground shifts beneath the newspapers.”
—Anne Hull, 2008 Elijah Lovejoy Convocation Address, Colby College
…I remember reading this speech in its entirety about four months ago from the resume-strewn and existential angst-ridden confines of the study in my family’s Minnesota home. I got choked up reading it then, but it seems so much more prescient now, as my colleagues and I get furloughs and lectures about byline counts and filing 10 briefs a day. But we still have this amazing opportunity and medium to do what can and should be really important, meaningful work.
