"...a journey must always transform you; that the person who returns must not be the same person as the one who left (or else the journey would have been useless). This is the wisdom of fairy tales, ancient fables, and ancient myths, from the young prince who returns to his father's kingdom ready to rule, to Odysseus who returns to Ithaca only after twenty life-changing years of war and wandering..."

-----email from Francisco V. Navarro V, a dear friend