Tag: meaning-making
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On Standing Under Things That Don’t Need Us
There are systems so large they don’t require participation to continue. The sky does not need belief.Weather does not need interpretation.Time does not need us to agree with it. And yet—here we are, standing underneath, measuring ourselves against things that would persist even if we forgot how to look up. This is not a humbling…
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If the Sky Changed
If the sky changed—not dramatically, not with thunder or announcement,but subtly,as if something familiar had shifted its weight— I don’t think the first response would be fear. I think it would be pause. A longer look upward.A recalibration of posture.The quiet noticing that what once felt dependable was never guaranteed,only consistent for a time. We…