Some thirty years ago at Pond Farm I was struggling with a problem of proportion, or texture or unity of a set, I've forgotten. Marguerite saw this and my distress. "You think that the problems that you have now are difficult. The real problems will come much later, when you are 50 or 60. Then you will question yourself and what you are doing." Throughout Marguerite's teaching, her writing, her work and her personal life ran the constant theme of being in the present and growth. I would give anything for one moment of her insight now as I continue to try to close the gap between the vision and the reality.