Sure things might be broken in a big and complicated sort of way, but we still have some non-zero efficacy to make change. This emphasis on efficacy empowers us to be a small agent off change using whatever skills we have

A phone as interlocator between two people necessarily depersonalizes the interaction.

What matters because of its goodness or its utility, not because of how I compare to others as a result of possessing it?

Though we took different paths to our meeting, we both yearn for respect and attention. We are only human.

Here are some ruts we are forming: going to bed with the sunset and waking up with the sunrise, focusing on being rather than doing, prioritizing a stretching routine

There's also a strange abundance in carrying everything that you need upon your back. Anything other than the essentials become superfluous and left behind.

Solitairy in the evening light, above the spruce and having the red sun, stood Sam. King of the castle.

We easily become jaded in our spirit, thinking that everyone else out there is seeking their own interests. But the spring does not seek its own interest

Everyone, immature or wise, young or old, will find some insightful nuggest of wisdom in How to Be Perfect.

The ground, then, is a battery of water, a tremendous reservoir that slowly seeps out in the multitudes of springs. A gradual discharge of cumulative abrupt rain events.