My first time on the blog since getting the new computer. I feel like I've read these words before -- is that possible? Might you have sent them out in an email? I like them, they give me a feeling of hair standing up a little bit. Change is all about us, but so often we do not seize it, enjoy it, revel in it, or appreciate it. It can be life-transforming and invigorating and affirming. But it is also, as you wrote, scary as shit. But I love reading the thoughts of people who are in the midst of it, or at least on the brink of it, and both excited and scared by it. Perhaps it is a form of living vicariously, for although on a micro level change is upon me every day (the growth of a 2-year-old son), on a more macro level that same source of change prevents other, larger changes from even being possible (moving cities; traveling by seat of pants; entering new social circles; etc). It's not good or bad, it just is. I liked your note a lot. -MJM
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My first time on the blog since getting the new computer. I feel like I've read these words before -- is that possible? Might you have sent them out in an email? I like them, they give me a feeling of hair standing up a little bit. Change is all about us, but so often we do not seize it, enjoy it, revel in it, or appreciate it. It can be life-transforming and invigorating and affirming. But it is also, as you wrote, scary as shit. But I love reading the thoughts of people who are in the midst of it, or at least on the brink of it, and both excited and scared by it. Perhaps it is a form of living vicariously, for although on a micro level change is upon me every day (the growth of a 2-year-old son), on a more macro level that same source of change prevents other, larger changes from even being possible (moving cities; traveling by seat of pants; entering new social circles; etc). It's not good or bad, it just is. I liked your note a lot.
-MJM
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