Day 59, February 28

"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
(Unfortunately I don't have the attribution for this quote.)

For many years I dreamed of writing and selling a book.  Eventually I did.  But it didn't come without doing the work involved.  I started by writing short stories and articles.  That was the "necessary" part.  Then I wrote one page of a book.  And then another and another.  That was possible.  Finally I had a complete manuscript.  That book never sold.  Nor should it.  It was, quite frankly, terrible.  But I had done the impossible.  I had written a book.

Years passed before I sold that first book, another impossibilty.  And more years passed before I sold the second.  But the "necessary" steps had evolved into the "possible," which finally resulted in to the "impossible."

Joy for today:  doing the impossible.