During an especially noisy elementary school assembly I witnessed a common marvel. Someone spoke,"Once upon a time..." into the mic, and the room hushed. Such magic never ceases to amaze me. ↗
Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went. ↗
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. ↗