DALE BOYER

Author, The Dandelion Cloud​

 

…"the root of all wisdom comes from having loved someone" claims Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited.  Decades ago, as I was writing what would become my novel, The Dandelion Cloud, I saw it as the perfect summation of that book – that only by loving someone does the main character, Justin, finally reach a place where he can confront the truth about himself and what he feels. 

 

Now, all these years later as the novel finally makes it into print, however, I see that statement as something much larger:  that only by focusing love and attention on something can we truly understand it.  Whether it be a poem, a photo or a story, you have to love a thing to really bring it into focus.  That love, that focus, and that eventual understanding, is what I hope to achieve through all my work.