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Year Three

Maybe it’s spring and that feeling of rebirth and renewal, of fresh starts, it fosters in us all.

On April 14, I begin my third year on Substack. It is almost about a year, around the same spring time, since I instituted my last changes here at Homo Vitruvius.

Busy Being Born

It all began in spring.

In the Prison of His Days

I’m a believer in change, in being reborn. We really don’t have any choice, however we may fool ourselves. I’ve lived more than long enough to know nothing stays the same. It’s the reverse of the common maxim that is actually true: the more things seem to stay the same, the more they change.

That said, the changes this time are not all that great, but I thought I’d take the time this week to let you all know of them and shine a light on what’s coming.

I’m taking a creative break this week to concentrate on the last, third part – some time in arriving – of the concluding chapter of my memoir, my “intellectual and spiritual accounting of identity,” Reason for Being in the World (a first draft composed before you…