A former mother-in-law of mine meant to say the standard prayer in which we ask God to make us ever mindful of the needs of others, but it came out “make us ever needful of the minds of others.” I have been ever thus needful. I am grateful for the minds of many others who have given me guidance and clues along the way.
Briefly, six of them.
First chronologically, and in importance: John Keats, whose principle of Negative Capability – when one “is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries