Was thinking about my uncertain future again, and looked up this little gem from Richard Brodhead that he e-mailed me back in the fall:
All you can do is keep as many options active as you feel truly attracted to, see what choices you have, make one, then trust to time and your own inner efforts to shape the whole life you want. “Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!” as they say in Moby Dick.
It still sounds like good advice to me. I am currently splitting my remaining weeks in Boston between class, reading/judging poems (they’re actually paying me now), and re-organizing the basement of a cute gay-married couple. You know, typical summer activities.
