A tale of two foyers.
From one foyer conversation to another... where to from here?
Redding, California, November 2022
The hotel was quiet. It was in the early morning hours when most guests had long retired. Sleep had come over the building, and yet, in the hotel lobby, five friends sat in a conversation that may prove to be a defining moment and be looked back on as that spark that ignited a fire.
The Eagle and the Child was another place of robust, animated conversation between friends. It was a meeting of the minds, somewhere between Narnia and The Shire, where fictional worlds felt almost real. In the company of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, possibilities became plausible, and history now records those casual interludes as moments of philosophical genius that resulted in some of the most significant literature the Western world has ever known.
I wonder now if the conversations and dreams that we all shared over hot chocolate and popcorn from the hotel lobby, could well have a similar effect.
I hope.
I pray.
I guess you never know the significance of a moment when you are in it.