Belonging

In my sophomore year of college, I took nine months off after receiving my real estate license so that I could work for my uncle’s successful commercial real estate brokerage company in Silicon Valley. Mind you, this was 1980, so there were all kinds of fruit orchards gracing the land of what would become the high-tech capital of the world.

“We have fallen out of belonging. Consequently, when we stand before crucial thresholds in our lives, we have no rituals to protect, encourage, and guide us as we cross over into the unknown.”