Good reflective post – thank you for the insight.

I also noticed the rather entertaining fact that there’s only a one character difference between “expansive” and “expensive” (the a vs. e). :-)

I’ve recently (past couple days) been toying with the important of _faith_ in change. i.e. you need to trust that the things you are doing _will_ lead to substantive change, regardless of how unlikely it may be, however useless your current actions actually seem to be.

Change, I think, is never easy in part because faith is difficult to bear. Fear is, in many ways, a faith-killer; it encourages you to reject your faith in yourself and your actions, and do something else. (For whatever reason – being a fool, wasting your life, letting down people who relied on you to do things you no longer wanted to do, and so on).

It’s an unusual perspective to me, because while I’d thought of faith conceptually with respect to religion, I’ve never really applied such a “religious” concept to my own life, and why it’s so difficult to put effort into long-term projects with uncertain rewards.

Love;
Michael