Course Correction

I just learned yesterday that a musician I have a great deal of respect and admiration for came to the difficult conclusion that the stresses and obligations of touring would have to defer to an urgent need to ground himself emotionally, regain a stability lost.

Sad to see the tour cancelled, more sad to know that yet another person I know has had to deal with his kind of thing -- this fight to keep the darker sides of our nature at bay. I don't really know him, of course, but if I did, I'd send to this to him -- different as they are, the things people turn to maybe aren't really that different after all:

"Let us remember...that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both."

--Christian Wiman, Editor, Poetry Magazine

I remember him saying something quite a bit like that himself once, and hope it sticks.