I have always been a dabbler.
A moderate musician, a mediocre gardener.
I have traveled broadly but not deeply.
Too little to do any real good.
I don't stay put well – physically or mentally.
I've studied math and physics but not enough to remember much.
I know the Bible and theology but not enough to keep up with a scholar.
I can play joy to the world on about a dozen instruments.
I met them once back in '95 when I was into that for a year.
There is a wisdom in knowing one place, and I feel the call of that truth.
"If you could settle down," I tell myself, "you could gain wisdom.
"Pick a place any one place and know it.
The trails of Tennessee or the highways of the Northeast.
Or finishing all the novels you have started.
Just pick a place, any of the dozens you have visited.
new ideas, new books, new instruments.
I am afraid it will fall to others to know one place.
I will know many and delight in that.
for what might have been had I known one place.
I will always wonder what I missed-what more I could have done.
What lasting impact on the world.
I will seek the joy to found in many.
I love this Ethan. You are a Renaissance Person and it is a good thing.