SHORT THOUGHTS

My wife thinks something is broken in me.

I can sit on a bench for an hour and do absolutely nothing...

Jul 11

A starling in a murmuration tracks exactly seven birds. Seven. Out of ten thousand.

And why is that...

Jul 7

The finances recover. Then they don’t.

The relationship improves. Then it doesn’t. The body gets better. Then it doesn’t.

Jul 5

Burnout has a stage nobody warns you about: the emptiness after the crash.

No fire. No drive. Not even panic.

Jul 4

Tech can’t override biology

No wild animal is sick from living wrong.

Jul 2

After a landslide, soil should stay dead.

The microbes are burned by the sun. The structure is gone. By any normal logic, nothing grows there again.

Jul 2

A piece of wood can’t swim against the current of a river.

It gets taken wherever the water wants to go, no matter how good the wood is.

Jul 1

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