Learn

I tell her that she must study, she must be smart. There is plenty strength in beauty, or in power. There is a lot a woman can be, and become, if she tries. But what has no limit, no top, nothing can ever contain it, is knowledge. Wisdom, it only comes with more learning, it only comes with more time. Opening the mind and taking it all in, not just the parts that are easy and smooth or taste good. Not just the parts that make you dance and write songs for lovers. No, the most gorgeous part of life is how one can consistently and endlessly open one’s mind to more. You can always be more. You can always know more. And if only I knew more, maybe I wouldn’t be in this seat today. Maybe you wouldn’t be reading this if you only knew more. And who stops you from learning> is it me or a bad teacher or your angry father or your depressed mother? It is not me. It is in your hands like a book with a bent binding. Read many times with the pages tearing and the corners, worn soft by hundreds of fingertips turning them.