Thank you @Mary Ellen Connor Smith for allowing me into your carrel. What a profoundly joyous experience. This may be the very best piece of writing I’ve ever read on Medium. Seriously. And, to me, the timing was exquisite.

“ In my place, the carrel, I imagined I was the speaker and the spoken to “you” was my writer self.” — Mary Ellen Connor Smith

That profound statement has been permanently carved into the oak desktop of my own carrel. The sun shines with great joy through the window onto the carrel desktop illuminating this now permanent carving. And that joy reverberates throughout my being.

Thank you.