Old men should be explorers
Here and there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity …*
T. S. Eliot

Insecurity, for an artist, can ultimately be a gift, albeit an excruciating one.**
Sally Mann

A sparky life, over and against a stodgy life,^ requires
the dynamic as well as the static,^^ although
the likelihood is, as I grow older,
I will seek the stodge and avoid the spark;
Whilst the invitation to keep moving remains –
And as long as we draw breath, it remains –
The wonderful gift of being knocked out of our
knowing and into wondering is still ours, albeit
an unkiltering experience.

Being curious is better than being smart.*^

*Peter Turchi’s A Muse and A Maze;
**Mason Currey’s Subtle Maneuvers blog: Insecurity is a gift!;
^Roald Dahl’s Danny the Champion of the World;
^^The dynamic ought to produce the static, the static, in turn must stimulate the dynamic. When life becomes all dynamism or all stasis, we are in trouble. Seth Godin’s new book This is Strategy explores these as strategy and system;
*^James Clear’s Atomic Habits.