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title: "“Things become … other things”"
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published_at: "2023-05-24T16:01:01+00:00"
author: "Stefan Grund"
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format: "standard"
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# “Things become … other things”

[Craig Mod](https://craigmod.com) in einer [vergangenen Ausgabe](https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/048/) seines Ridgeline-Newsletters, in dem er von seinen Wanderungen durch Japan erzählt, mit einer schönen Anekdote:

> “This is our daughter,” the wife said. \[…\]
>
> As the husband drove me down off the mountain back to the Ise-ji path, he said, “She’s not … our daughter.”
>
> What?
>
> Suddenly with more fluency: “She just appeared, seven years ago, was wandering the country, needed a job, somehow … found us. She is not a daughter but like a daughter. Time passes, and that’s what happens. Things become … other things.”

(_Unrelated Ergänzung zum Format:_ Ist es nicht großartig, dass Craig Mod 1. so gut schreibt, dass sich auch die Lektüre seiner vergangenen Newsletter-Ausgaben (der hier ist von 2019) lohnt und 2. er [ein eigenes, verlinkenswertes Newsletter-Archiv](https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/) auf seiner Website hat?)