I'm Grateful That, After An Early Life

How Will You Go About Finding That Thing The Nature Of Which Is Totally Unknown To You?" (plato) The Things We Want Are Transformative, And We Don’t Know Or Only Think We Know What Is On The Other Side Of That Transformation. Love, Wisdom, Grace, Inspiration- How Do You Go About Finding These Things That Are In Some Ways About Extending The Boundaries Of The Self Into Unknown Territory, About Becoming Someone Else?

Beauty Is Often Spoken Of As Though It Only Stirs Lust Or Admiration, But The Most Beautiful People Are So In A Way That Makes Them Look Like Destiny Or Fate Or Meaning, The Heroes Of A Remarkable Story.

In The Bare Room Under The Old Library On The Hill In The Town At The Tip Of The Small Peninsula On The Cold Island So Far From Everything Else, I Lived Among Strangers And Birds.

I Still Think The Revolution Is To Make The World Safe For Poetry, Meandering, For The Frail And Vulnerable, The Rare And Obscure, The Impractical And Local And Small.

For Me, Childhood Roaming Was What Developed Self-reliance, A Sense Of Direction And Adventure, Imagination, A Will To Explore, To Be Able To Get A Little Lost And Then Figure Out The Way Back.