We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything else go, we will probably be able to retain the thing necessary for us-whatever it may be. If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need
We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone.