Digital BW, The Print

I found this quote today that speaks to many levels -- including the 
challenges faced by those of us on this list:

"If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is
indeed progress....Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally
upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't
happen by social laws.... it happens as a result of hard work by 
dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to
look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at 
them, with no guarantee of success—in fact, with a need for a
rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of 
disappointments."  -Noam Chomsky

Clark Thomas
simplephotographs.com