My brilliant, creative, kind, loving mentor Dave Krantz passed away. Here is his obituary. He leaves behind a legacy of deep interdisciplinary thinkers and a community of world wide collaborators. I was lucky enough to study psychology and statistics from him as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) which he directed at Columbia University. We were dear friends until the end of his life. He introduced me to Octavia Butler (and countless other scifi), taught me how to make the most delicious dishes, to enjoy poetry and humor, to slow down, to value precise inference, to navigate love and life…and so much more. He is missed.
To Know the Dark
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
Wendell Berry