“If I am not in the world simply to adapt to it, but rather transform it, and if it is not possible to change the world without a certain dream or vision for it, I must make use of every possibility there is not only to speak about my utopia, but also to engage in practices consistent with it.”

— Paulo Freire

Taking the less-traveled path in search of the best soil, the widest field of action has been outrageously complex, isolating, liberating, and deeply fulfilling.

Hermann Hesse wrote nearly a century ago, “My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action”.