The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.
You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.
