When We Set Out

My father has been with me since his death, speaking to me through the things he did, the things he built, the things he loved. So when someone recently asked, “Which should we listen to, our soul or our will,” I suddenly remembered my father teaching me how to steer the thirty-foot sailboat he built when I was a boy. He would say, “It’s the sail that follows the wind and the rudder that follows the sail.” The sail by its nature will catch the wind and lean into it. The rudder is for steering once you’ve set sail.