Cast your nets wide, I tell the young people with big eyes and empty hearts,

Throw fishing lines out, spinning until you have woven yourself a web

Or a mat

Or a blanket.

Take courage, I say to my students, because if you cast enough lines the world will begin to catch them steady.

You will find fish in your net, meals in your web, prayer upon your mat, warmth in your blanket.

And so here I cast out a line of my own.

Hello.