i prefer “performance art” rather than “crying in the grocery store”

Clearing the decks, lowering my center of gravity, tying better knots, strengthening foundations.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.

I’m trying to strike a healthy balance between being informed and being oblivious.