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Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well” – Ecclesiastes 11:6

As I look back on eight and a half decades of living, what stands out is not one headline achievement, but the winding, curious path that brought me here.