What You Find Out When the Pressure Becomes Real
When some structure falls away / A real test of the ideas I’ve been writing about
This is not a crisis post. But it is 100% timely—if not fitting—given the ground we’ve covered over the last few weeks.
Something that has helped support our life here has disappeared. I sort of saw it coming, but then suddenly—just gone. I thought briefly about whether I should write about this here. There wasn’t really another option.
I write about most aspects of my life—on the way to Spain and after a year in the country. Things have gone off without issue. So, when something comes up—a hiccup—I’d be missing an opportunity to put to the test the things I’ve been writing about.
This is the kind of moment that reveals whether the ideas you live by are real—or just comfortable abstractions.
What disappeared matters less than how I responded when it did.
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