A successful column usually means that I am treading on familiar ground,

　　going with the tricks that work or dressing up popular sentiments in fancy words.

　　Often in my inferior columns, I am trying to pull off something Ive never done before,

　　something Im not even sure can be done.

　　My younger daughter is a trapeze artist.

　　She spent three years putting together an act.

　　She did it successfully for years.

　　There was no reason for her to change the act- but she did anyway.

　　She said she was no longer learning anything new and she was bored.

　　So she changed the act.

　　She risked failure and profound public embarrassment in order to feed her soul.

　　My granddaughter is a perfectionist.

　　She will feel her failures, and I will want to comfort her.

　　But I will also, I hope, remind her of what she learned,

　　and how she can do whatever it is better next time.

　　I hope I can tell her, though, that its not the end of the world.

　　Indeed, with luck, it is the beginning.

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