I have touched that place a time or two recently. I have been there at work, figuring out the details of a complex plan for helping local leaders in rural communities help kids. I often get there when I am preparing the prayers I offer on those Sundays when I serve as liturgist. I touched that place two weeks ago as I walked the labyrinth at a retreat in Santa Barbara. Yeast is the Life of Bread.
Every loaf of bread baked costs the life of the yeast that made it rise, but the yeast lives on.
This is a model for those of us who are on the path out of the amusement park.