Gamache’s choices are one of the central themes of the series. Certainly, she’s emphasized the importance of choice in The Grey Wolf and again in The Black Wolf. The choices that Gamache makes. The Wisdom of Gamache. The choices that we make having read the books and embraced Gamache and his wisdoms.

I can think of a few times where I’ve come to a fork and had to make a choice. Usually I stop for a good long while before making a decision and I think that’s helped me not look back and wonder as much about the road not taken. Are there times when you’ve looked back at your forks and wondered? Do you think you would’ve changed anything?

The Road Not Taken

By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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  1. Absolutely! I can think of at least several and I probably took the other one, the one more worn. At least, those are the choices I made when younger. But they are also the choices that let me now be open to more untrodden paths from the perspective of one who has the luxury to look back and recognize where I made choices and what informed them. I believe the challenge is appreciating that one has a choice; I think sometimes the more well trodden road seems like it is an imperative more than a choice.

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