Robert Gowan

“In psychologist Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl says that even when everything has been taken from you, you can choose your attitude: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“When we are in trouble, the people who love us will come for us in the dark. They will come with flashlights and tow straps and whatever else it takes, if we just call out for their help.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“It’s always the small dogs that start shit.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“Spend any time on Facebook or Twitter (now renamed X), and the idea of “one America” seems not only like fantasy but also like an unpopular fantasy. We want to be alienated from one another. This mutual animus is the one thing we all agree on.”
― Steven Hyden, There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland