Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that departures are not relocations. You depart, but the countermovement is a return. You’re not a nomad. You’re not rootless. You have to preserve your sense of your original mission and the importance of coming back to it. It’s not so much “Wherever you go, there you are.” It’s “Wherever you go, there it is.” Your central creative ideas move with you, and you move through them. Departures don’t upend that apple cart. They just cart it around.
