New Beginnings

The nice thing about searching for another job is that you can, if only for a brief moment, decide that you will be a different person - perhaps a shoemaker, or mason, or even a potter Like Bernard Leach. All your personal history and tradition can go into a dream of change. A glow of anticipation. All your fun times, those moments that meant the most in your informal education - Scouts and school dances, travelling on a train and riding to hounds - become grist for your response to the opportunity. Naturally the uncomfortable things about change, like being more or this or that, get lost in the glow of reverie - a kind of future memory.