Thank you.

Decades ago, I lamented my lack of primitive survival skills: hunting, making fire without a lighter, dressing and cooking game or fish, making clothes - and made some comment to a friend that I prayed the apocalypse would never come, as I'd probably have to fall back on the world's oldest profession. He kindly reminded me that nothing that drastic would be called for - that every ancient civilization needed and revered its storytellers. That has been a great comfort, through the years.

I still hope we're not on the brink of the apocalypse, though.