The Hospitality of Cardamom

(What follows is a keynote address I wrote for the Surrey International Writers' Conference in October 2017. I posted it to Drip on June 27, 2018, but as Drip stumbles into obsolescence and a friend asked after a link, I’m re-posting it here. I'm working on modifying it to be more of a standalone essay and to bring it up to date, because thoughts about …