These days, I really envy Claude’s knowledge cutoff being 2024.

Just as you're waking up, in that gossamer moment before you try to remember a dream. The mystery doesn't want to be solved; it wants to be witnessed, to be danced with. The intention is to become so exquisitely receptive that you begin to notice the spaces between your own thoughts breathing.

Stochastic primordial soup

Ta-Nehisi Coates wields words like sledgehammers.

As a kid in the 1980s, I played a video game on the Commodore 64 called “Theatre Europe.” The game was a simulation of a hypothetical NATO v. Warsaw Pact conflict in Europe, and a player could initiate a full nuclear response between the US and USSR. To that move, you had to call a phone number.

We can build on love, a foundation that won’t wash away.

An uncommon light

Choosing these first faves sooooo carefully, like it’s the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man scene in Ghostbusters