Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again...

Yes, we can.

( Full text of the speech. )

guilt consumes me for the unread

Went through the stack of books by my bed, and those that had been by my desk (until being moved into the second library while I laid the floor and had to practically hang half the house from the ceiling in the meantime) -- and after months of going to bed with the last sight before sleep being a stack of books I just couldn't ever seem to find the energy interest time to read, I decided it was time to get over the guilt and find them new homes.

( But before that: looking for folks who loved any of these books just so much, enough to tell me what I might have been missing (or a better mindset to work myself into) when reading... )