We’re so deep into our project now that we can’t turn back … and yet the end is still so far away it seems impossible to conceive of reaching it.

We try to recharge our will by flashing back to our original commitment, our dream, our vision. But these are so far behind us we can barely remember them.

As David Mamet says, “It’s hard to remember that you set out to drain the swamp when you’re up to your ass in alligators.”