Sometimes I Wish

that I were a hard-headed pragmatist, concerned only with 'matters of consequence' -- as Saint-Exupéry had his pilot put it in The Little Prince -- able to comprehend important, real-world things like people and appointments and dividends, and plan ahead for every major necessity without being distracted by the little oddnesses and vaguenesses along the way..,

instead of the impractical airhead that I am.