As the Monty Python segue goes, "And now for something completely different."

I came across this quote by William Blake this morning. I don't know if it is true, but it surely is encouraging to those of us whose path in life is not always one that puts on a good front to the world, with neatly trimmed edges and smoothed-over surfaces:

Improvement makes strait roads;
but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. —William Blake