I was inspired today by a guy on NPR. I forget who it was, but he more or less said that you have to be crazy to write a book these days if you want to affect people. Money and movies are the means to influence society these days he said...but it's still good to write. Well, I have had two books that I was writing shelved for the last nine months or a year...one was almost a quarter done...I'm going to start work on them again though. I don't know why. One is non-fiction, a travelogue of a sixteen-day blitz through Europe that I took a couple years back (the e-mail journal I sent back to folks back home is here in case you're interested), the other is a novel exploring the nature of the religious/spirituality dichotomy (or, if you're into Kierkegaard, the differences between Christianity and Christendom). I don't know...I've had the gantlet thrown down at my feet and I'm ready to fight the ol' "there's no point" argument.