EDITORS’ NOTES: A tribute to the chosen one, Michael Wayne Rosen.

As you well-know by now, I really ought to keep my ramblings to myself. Until I somehow manage to state something worthwhile though, please allow me to parrot a gentleperson much wiser.

Once upon a while ago, I stumbled upon a duo of quotations from Mr Rosen. The first of which, I likely misinterpreted, because, in truth, it’s probably how I personally was feeling during a quite problematic period, “Sometimes I don't want to talk about it. Not to anyone. No one. No one at all. I just want to think about it on my own. Because it is mine. And no one else's.” It’s the second one, however, which triggers in me if ever I catch myself feeling like the first description, “Anyone who was once a child should at least have one children’s book in them”. My greatest aspiration. It helps me refocus.

‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ was of the first few books I ever read, and no matter how difficult or muddied any moment has since appeared, it’s been when glancing back through a more colourful lens that I most remember the need to trust the youth in me to help steer my vessel forward.

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