I like to travel light
and try things myself,
but I form deep relationships
when I do good work
with good people.
I am often dancing
while cooking
and acquiring things to read,
and sometimes I am reading them.
I am always analyzing,
for I am
for better or worse
a critic—
not the mean kind but
the kind who
looks for the patterns
and the breaths
the beats and the caesuras—
marveling at what we’ve done
and thinking about where
to go next.