Your best? Your best is the important thing! The most vital thing. The most integral part of your soul and yourself is that you try, you see?

[The dog scrambles closer, tail wagging furiously. It's equal parts apparent delight and adrenaline-swollen anxiety, that ever-present song of just how much there is to be done.]

Everything. Everything. The fences are in desperate need of repair, and the sugarcane hasn't been touched in who can even saw how long, and I know I saw a wild herd or two getting out of their pastures, and...what place doesn't need help?