#erickerickson — Public Fediverse posts

The First Universe We Ever Knew

There is something humbling about studying human development — as if each chapter is less a lesson and more a reminder that we are all, in some way, still forming. The science offers its clean definitions and tidy theories, but beneath them runs a deeper current, one that feels almost mythic: the story of how a person becomes. Somewhere in the background, a quiet truth hums:we are always mid‑sentence in our own becoming. We like to imagine development as a straight ascent, a staircase […]

https://thereflectivemind9.wordpress.com/2026/06/16/the-first-universe-we-ever-knew/