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August 11, 2006
End of an Era
Today is my last in the Sacramento/Davis area. Tomorrow morning at 8am, I’ll be moving back to the Bay Area...
This experience has been good to me. I have learned the limits of what I can do and who I ought to be. In addition to my more formal training in my chosen field, I have learned to give others the autonomy they need. Not that I’m not still arrogant—but I’m no longer an arrogant prick...
This time, this place, this journey—it has been good and useful and necessary. I have done everything I’ve said I wanted to do: Got the degree, managed a campaign, made some friends, didn’t make enemies—hell! I’ve even lost some weight...
It’s been Exile. I’ve been cut off from friends, family and every resource I have had access to. Building new friendships and gathering new resources has told me much about who I am. Not all of it has been good. I’ve been working on those issues, however...
Thank you Davis. Thank you Sacramento. I have learned the lessons you’ve taught me. I’ve become the man I could become from where I started. I’m ready to go back home. I may well return some day, ready to learn new lessons. But it won’t be Exile...
Posted by Andrew at August 11, 2006 12:13 PM