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Ethan, I always think of you & Sam Shepard the true renaissance men of our time. I imagine with your exciting life of work, travel, meeting new people & encountering more exciting things in a year than most of us do in a lifetime there is so much you want to do that you have to pick & choose. I’m wondering though out of curiosity & ways to get a fire under my butt, do you ever have times when you have force yourself to go out & find inspiration to keep things new/alive & if so, can you share some tips on that?

Hey Ethan & Greg, thanks for doing this. Loved Meadowlark (Greg, fun surprise seeing your amazing illustrations of Ethan) as well as the fantastic Indeh. Btw, Ethan, I just listened to the audio for a second time of A Bright of Darkness, your reading deserves an award. Currently reading (finally since I’ve read all of both of your other books) Sudden Gravity & Rules for a Knight (kudos, they are also addicting). Question- do you guys do most of your parts of the work alone or together & which ever way it is, when you do it together is it in person, on FaceTime etc or the phone? Can we expect another collab someday in the future?

Thank you, it was such a pleasure to listen to down to even the music, best audio book I’ve listened to. Also thanks for the heads up, I read Ash Wednesday & the Hottest State when they were first released & didn’t know you did an audio book for Ash Wednesday. Going to buy that after this AMA.

Ethan, I think of you as a of mentor of mine (& the world’s), your sage (that’s nothing to do w/age, I loved Johnny Appleseed too, totally forgot about it until today) advice always seems to be what I feel I needed to learn/hear/be motivated by in more ways than I could count, so much so that I find myself constantly copying your wisdom into my notes on my phone to peek at often. This has been a very important one for me “I do not want you children to use my untimely death, or any setback that life may deliver, as an excuse not to take responsibilities for yourselves.” Ethan & Greg, what advice can you give us today… possibly something that you feel you learned or feel differently about than you maybe did prior to the pandemic? Thanks for joining us today, appreciate it immensely.