After many years of school, (as my students would say, I went through 22nd grade) I have been teaching literacy classes at a University. While I love teaching, both those who are little and those who are big, I sometimes have this nagging wonder about what else might be out there that I would be good at and enjoy. While I do love teaching, I wonder what else there is for me. Is it that we only have one career from which we can thrive? Is our calling singular and if we have found it, we are done? Or is it general gumption that propels some to find their multiple callings, their abilities?
I know you, Bette, have the overwhelming compulsion to do many things, and that since the beginning, you have pushed and pulled and moved through the ranks in many areas, singing, acting, gardening, and even in your marriage. Still, where does that ability come from? How are some good at so many things? Is it a personality? Is it a belief system? Is it something else?
Where does the insatiable talent and chutzpah come from and how do we know if we should listen to our own?
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