Dear Piaf,

Well, that was disappointing news. I spent about five minutes feeling lousy and telling myself, I quit, then I remembered what you said when we first discussed this issue: “But you don’t plan to let the chance of failure stop you, do you?”

The answer then was no and it’s still no. I just need to remember that.

ATAT

PS I wonder if you know that T Roosevelt quote: “far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”