every day in 2016, write a sentence or a paragraph or a poem that appreciates
Homer
Homer! OMG! Homer, who invented poetry - as far as we know. who invented novels at the same time! who collected and told us such powerful stories of the Greek gods. who told us how the Greeks of his time thought and lived - or at least how they might've if they'd lived up to their own ideals. who knew how petty we can be, even when being leaders. who knew how noble we can be in spite of ourselves. who knew friendship and grief and honoring. who understood whatever it is that makes soldiers soldiers. who knew war in its vastness and in its details, in circumstance and in planning and in execution. who knew the consequences in human lives, both male lives and female lives. who knew reverence whether or not he knew worship. who knew adventure and knew its immediate satisfaction and its eventual futility. who knew how to engage us, whether we are children or young people or grownups or old folks. Homer! Dear gods! Homer!
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