Maile Capestro

“Boss? While I have the drone up, can I go further out and see what’s there?”
“Yeah, sure. Go ahead.”
I turned off the tablet and started packing up when Rudy yelled, “Boss! Boss!”
“Why are you shouting? I’m right here. I can hear you, Rudy.”
“Boss! You gotta see this!”
― Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance

“Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“The other two muleteers, addicted to opium, were invariably in a dazed state of mind. They had to smoke the drug every morning in order to rouse themselves sufficiently to tie up the packs. It was evident this morning that we would not be able to start marching before 8 a.m. whereas the stream of refugees invariably got under way at dawn. Captain Gribble”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

“Life’s got to be lived, no matter how long or short,”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting