I've been thinking about this more after getting home from meeting some Farcon attendees last night. Reaching parenting age I find myself retreating to my comfort corners and reveling in my habitual life. It wasn’t always this way.

I moved out to NY 7 years ago to start a new job in a city. No friends. No family. It's what all "open to anything" eras begin. Meet some people. Some become friends, one eventually becomes a life partner. Life is great, but life gets regimented.

In the midst of starting a family and going through the motions, I notice a new face at my daughter's gymnastics class. In the smallest of worlds, the friend I'd made in my first weeks in the city also moved boroughs to my exact zipcode and had a baby two months younger than mine. Crazy.

We take for granted all the seeds you sow to get there and have these friendships that you cherish.. but many start this way. That's how a non-crypto holder DM'd Dan Romero to join a crypto-forward-social-network.. just because. It takes some pushing through to put yourself out there and serendipity max your way through life (at least attempt to).

In these days leading up to FarCon I remind myself (constantly) not to hide behind the familiar faces I've met over the years from being in the NY Farcaster community. The magic is (and will always be) in sowing the seeds and watching them grow.

Hope to meet some more of you this week