Approaching Ahab Blind

Because it’s the alchemy of the crossing, the intersection, the braiding, far more than any chosen road: the encounter, the addition, the thick, unnamable, unreasonable, adherent richness of what comes between. Whether we want to or not, we get our feet wet. We are open systems: we are moved, changed, made more populous, made dif fer ent: by things, people, places we may not have intended, did not choose. And that stunning, often inexplicable betweenness is what makes us, propels us, returns us to ourselves over and again as amazed strangers, and sends us again, seeking, outwards.