RETURN INTO THE NEW

May 2024 – The roads we take sometimes lead us back to where we started. That is not to say that all was in vain – to the contrary. After almost seven years in Europe – years of the grand sweep of AI, the lingering social and economic ravages of the pandemic, a war that is far from over and deeply troubling, and the realization that I no longer fit, and perhaps never did, in the place of my ancestors – I have returned to the US to rekindle my connections and fill a role that demands all the skills I have ever learned from the time of first entering the workplace to reinventing myself time and again. Now I am all of it at the same time – interpreter, liaison, coordinator, team member, and creative impulse. Knowledge and experience matter – and nothing is more meaningful right now than that.