Andrew Foster Altschul

“Travel. Of any kind. Whether to a country you'd have a hard time finding on a map, or to the bead shop in your neighborhood you've never set foot in. Get out of your head—your head is good at convincing you that what is bouncing around inside is incredibly important. Usually it's not. Travel to remind yourself that there are six billion people on the planet and most of them live lives you could not recognize, and the minutia and nuance of your own small concerns would be unrecognizable to them. Stand in an airport—outside of time, bound to no place—and let the crush of people, the flow of times and destinations on the board, carry you out of yourself. Remember how big the world is, and how full of trouble.”
—Andrew Foster Altschul, author of Deus Ex Machina (Counterpoint, 2011)