Anna’s Substack
Marfa, Texas. 4am. A dark 1937 theater, a long road, and the hard work.
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Luck Is When Hard Work Meets Opportunity (opens the original)
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That is my grandfather’s line and it is the closest thing by family has to gospel. He did not coin it, he collected on it. I have said it in rented cars, on the frozen Canadian tundra, and once in a bank parking lot with a very fat wad of cash in my hand. It gets invoked as a blessing around the holiday table and murmured in embrace during the lean years. It has settled arguments, and ended arguments without settling anything at all. For most of my life I took it as folk wisdom, hardscrabble lor
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