That’s what humans do: We make and remake our stories, abandoning the ones that no longer fit and trying on new ones for size.*
Katherine May

As our circumstances change, we need to tell our stories differently in order to bring out their timeless truth.**
Karen Armstrong

This adapting, unfolding, growing nature
of story is really
important for me to embrace right now:
I am newly retired,
I have moved my home two hundred miles,
Yet there is something I must do –
My timeless truth – and
I must do all I can to keep sight of this,
So I keep coming to this quiet place
each morning to
reimagine:
I thought of the old Latin root of the word desire,
meaning de sider, 
of the stars. 
To have a desire in your life literally means
to keep your star in sight,
to follow a glimmer,
a beacon,
a disappearing will-o’-the-wisp
over the horizon into someplace you cannot yet
fully imagine.^

*Katherine May’s Wintering;
**Karen Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth;
^David White’s Crossing the Unknown Sea.