Deep Calls to Deep: Abandoning the Dog

In The God’s of the Copybook Headings, Rudyard Kipling concludes his poem by saying that a few things are certain.

The Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire

Each instance depicts the cyclical nature of folly, cleverly suggesting that a fool will always return to the thing he knows, even when it is not beneficial, even detrimental.

But what each of us returns to is different.

For me, I return to a ...