A Lifetime of Learning

"I was fifty-four years old when I finally began taking piano lessons. All through my forties I had bought the excuse that I was too old to start something new. Then one day it occurred to me that I would age whether I knew piano or not and that I might respect myself more as the world's oldest novice than as someone who stayed blocked and yearning."

- Julia Cameron, Finding Water - The Art of Perseverance

I believe in lifelong learning. It alleviates the pressure and overwhelming (not to mention arrogant and unrealistic) feeling of having to know everything and take it all in while I'm young. If I'm lucky the Universe will continue planting tiny seeds of curiosity in my body, mind and soul - seeded wonders, a special someone once called them - allowing me to open myself to new worlds or experiences as I grow up, and learn to rejoice in the status of "beginner."

I look forward to it.