"When we said you could be anything,
we meant you could be a brain surgeon, or a district attorney.
We didn't mean you should become a poet."
But it was Dad that taught me that the call of my wild heart
rings as valid as any voice of reason,
and it was Mom who taught that
raging terror of where you're headed
is the surest sign you're traveling in the right direction.

-Marty McConnell