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Because, according to the old canard, those who can’t do teach, and those who can’t teach, teach teachers.
Robert Frost said home is the place that, when you go there, they have to take you in. It’s also the place you start from, and if you’re one of the lucky ones, it’s where you finish up.
remember thinking that the fading of hopes and ambitions was mostly painless. That was good, but it was also rather horrible. I wanted to be a writer, but I was beginning to think being a good one was beyond me. If it was, the world would continue to spin.
“I’m sorry for you. Your world is a living breath in a universe that is mostly filled with deadlights.”
Well, I tell myself, we call it a gift and we call ourselves gifted, but gifts are never really earned, are they? Only given. Talent is grace made visible.
It’s all right to want what you can’t have. You learn to live with it. I tell myself that, and mostly I believe it.
