I would be astonished too if he gave me claps and comments and emjoyed my stories. I'd brag too, and spill piles of papers, and colored calligraphy pens would scatter. Meanwhile, I will go to my favorite faith gathering and pray that Tim may, God willing, respond to the article I wrote in response to one of his, which included a daring challenge from me, the tiny writer, though now I think I should never reproach anyone ever and I did do that in that article, before knowing that, and two. that you might read an article or poem of mine and highlight and/or clap. Those would be certificates of validation, though I'm being validated here in other ways. I also want to mention on behalf of the tiny writers that not everyone can write all the time and that some of us write when we can and labor for our work and it is vulnerable and sacred and not half-baked.