Listening to the show Radio Lab today reminded me of this piece of a Terry Gross interview with Maurice Sendak

But, you know, there’s something I’m finding out as I’m aging – that I am in love with the world. And I look right now, as we speak together, out my window in my studio and I see my trees, my beautiful, beautiful maples that are hundreds of years old, they’re beautiful. And you see, I can see how beautiful they are. I can take time to see how beautiful they are.

It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. You know, I don’t think I’m rationalizing anything. I really don’t, since this is all inevitable and I have no control over it. “Bumble-ardy” was a combination of the deepest pain and the wondrous feeling of coming into my own, and it took a long time.

It took a very long time, but it’s genuine. Unless I’m crazy. I could be crazy and you could be talking to a crazy person.