I Praise Folly!!!

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Philippe Halsman, Marylin with Barbells, 1952

As the year comes to a close, I am embarking on a move….a bold move that I would never have imagined just a year ago.  There comes a point in life, where I think we finally understand that we can never anticipate the outcome of our walkabouts.  This is especially true of restless minds like mine who are driven by a peculiar dose of childlike curiousity.  I can only quote Erasmus at this point:

For there are two main obstacles to the knowledge of things, modesty that casts a mist before the understanding, and fear that having fanci’d a danger, dissuades us from the attempt. But from these folly sufficiently frees us, and few there are that rightly understand of what great advantage it is to blush at nothing and attempt every thing. – Desiderius Eramsums “In Praise of Folly” 1509

Happy New Year!!!!