The World Keeps Going ‘Round ‘n ‘Round

…with the offer of work that would give me license to see at least a few more miles of the world, I jumped at that open door as I've jumped at most others that ever came my way…I was for off, as far as the road would take me, and it took me half across the world, before I understood: Life goes not in a straight line, but in a circle…the first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kith and kin and stillness, and the other half brings us back, by roundabout ways, but surely, to that state from which we set out.

— Brother Cadfael