History immortalizes the devoted, not the perfected.

Those whose names endured were not those who began with mastery,

but those who began with care.

A care that accompanied action,

an engagement that never ceased,

a fascination with the thing itself,

not with what is said about it, nor what is hoped from it.

And so mastery came as a follower, not a leader,

and impact came as a result, not a claim.