I've started a new thread in MLC called "Year #3: Detour back into the tunnel".

I think I need some mlc advice so I'll be over there for now...

Thanks for your input and feel free to visit me there

According to the Buddha, praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow may "come and go like the wind," but happiness comes if you can "rest like a great tree in the midst of them all."