If nothing else, experience is a teacher. If nothing else, experience creates empathy. If nothing else, experience shapes you.

What can push you to the edge? What are you moved by? Who are you moved by?

First, Alfred Noyes takes the stage. The road was a ribbon of moonlight. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.  Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they deaf that they did not hear? — Now, an inspired mentee. A bubbling sense of panic, that pierced like needles through the skin. Too strained to…

Sometimes we make a mountain out of a mole hill. And other times, we make a mole hill out of a mountain. At that point, it’s one foot in front of the other. Incremental progress.

Not my plan. Not my agenda. Not my objective.