Things to learn, things to share
You know you’re moving on, not just when the house is sold, but when the social signals and badges begin rolling away.
That said, an honor to lose this to a mensch I’ve been reading for donkeys years!
Looks like he’s doing good work at the Ostrom Workshop, another community to learn with.
To say that one had “seen the light” is a poor description of the mental rapture which only the convert knows…. The new light seems to poor in from all directions across the skull; the whole universe falls into pattern like the stray pieces of a jigsaw puzzle assembled by magic at one stroke. There is now an answer to everyone question, doubts and conflicts are a matter of the tortured past…. Nothing henceforth can disturb the convert’s inner peace and serenity — except the occasional fear of losing faith again, and losing thereby what alone makes life worth living. And falling back into the outer darkness.
Arthur Koestler describing the conversion experience to Communism, but possibly broadly applicable to many conversion experience and ideation large and small.