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<\/a>immediate answer to that sort of question kind of guy. \u00a0So, I paused, reflected.<\/p>\n“I always knew I would mature late,” I said.<\/p>\n
Long ago I read a monograph on the development of people in various fields. \u00a0The longest was the philosopher\/theologian, somewhere in the 50’s. \u00a0Since I’ve battered my through more than one field, I figured I’d be later.<\/p>\n
“With Greg (Latin tutor) asking me to collaborate on the commentary (Ovid’s Metamporphoses) and the completion of Missing’s first draft, I’m feeling like I may be hitting my maturity at last.”<\/p>\n
I’m beginning to feel grown up, as if I’ve retrieved my birthright from the convoluted labyrinth of my life. \u00a0This is not, interestingly, about achievement, but about individuation, about becoming who I am and who I will be.<\/p>\n
“So,” I told Kate, “I’m feeling pretty good. \u00a0Not jump up and down, yippee good, I’m too northern European for that, but pretty good.”<\/p>\n
That’s how I am this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Beltane Moon Now what? \u00a0First draft put to bed. \u00a0In Kate’s hands now. Kate asked how I was doing this morning during our … Continue reading What Now?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,14,3907,3996,4003,197],"tags":[672,1128,2995],"class_list":["post-14073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-reimagining-faith","category-third-phase-2","category-translating-metamorphoses","category-writing","tag-individuation","tag-maturity","tag-missing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14077,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073\/revisions\/14077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>immediate answer to that sort of question kind of guy. \u00a0So, I paused, reflected.<\/p>\n