The truth is, I can't find anyone in life or apparently here who can understand how important Zen has been to be these past few years.

I feel like Mr. Bradbury has just touched me, or punched me, so hard that all I want to do is be the writer I have been since I was in fourth grade but everyone who has ever read my stores and papers and essays just have absolutely nothing to say about them.

I always get the A - Great. No input. I am not arrogant, nobody ever encouraged me to be a writer, not even my own family.

I read Zen and I know that I am just like him. A sapling for decades with not one person to water me.

Ray taught me how to make my own water and grow without sunshine.