All writing is trying to say something new that is true, that is both specific and universal, and that helps the reader understand something they did… - Wright Thompson

The hidden history of Kentucky is everywhere, relics of the booms and busts of people who tried to grab a piece of that permanence only to have it slip through their fingers. Most of these farms are owned by someone who made a breathtaking amount of money doing something else. In the rush of their pruchase, most never stopped ot think that they were probably buying from someone who'd lost a similarly breathtaking fortune. Nearly every horse farm comes with the silent warning of the construction magnate who took on one project too many, the coal baron who couldn't survive his industry's decline, the industrialist family that burned through its inheritance.

I know that success means reaching your goals and enjoying them and that one without the other is empty and meaningless.

He doesn’t inspire selfies as much as handshakes.