Last day of the month, and again, I’ve been absent for quite some time. Plenty a good reason for it though – just after the election, I got engaged. Suddenly, the energy I had put into reading and watching politics has been put into planning a wedding, looking for a house, dreaming about the future. And while it has all been exciting independently, it’s also become amazing how the things I argue in the abstract (either politically, philosophically or whatever) have an impact on major life-decisions.
For instance, it’s one thing to talk a good game on loyalty and devotion to family; quite something else to deliberately look for houses that have extra room for an aging parent to one day live in. Or thinking about having children close in age so that none can have the undivided attention of their parents, none can feel that the world revolves around them, all will learn cooperation, humility, and the art of having to talk over each other at the dinner table. I’ll have a lot more to say about this in the coming days; for now, I just wanted to make the November deadline. 
