Signing off in a world of what’s next

Before turning in last night, I saw a video by Pete from Just a Few Acres Farm YouTube channel. I have followed him for a while. Reflecting on his goodbye, I felt a tinge of sadness every time one of my favorite creators signs off. I have zero interest in being a farmer. But I still watched him. why? Because I like folks who find a new way forward. And today after 6-odd years of being on the YT, he said that was it. He and his wife, both in their 50s, are now going to find a new way of doing things. It is not clear what that means. “It occurred to both of us that we didn’t need to know,” Larson said. Similar to when he left architecture. He was an architect, who decided that being in the 9-to-5 grind wasn’t for him. He wanted to do something more meaningful. So he left the job, the big city and became a cattle farmer, essentially running his small holding family farm. “After 20 years on the job, I decided that the field of architecture just wasn’t for me. I had a great job that gave…