Q: I’m what you call a Jumper and I’m at an emptied out place now where there’s a subtle but deep joy like a calm after a storm. How do I keep old machinery from starting up?

I’m worried it won’t last.

A: What you’re describing is a very recognizable place in the process. After prolonged Disruption and Deconstruction, The Void sometimes does feel like the calm after the storm. The urgency drops, the psychological noise quiets, something feels emptied out, but not bleak. Instead there’s a subtle steadiness, even a quiet joy. For me, it was nothing dramatic, just relief from the machinery that had been grinding for so long. There was a subtle joy without object.