Day 259 of 2025
“Thresholds Between Ordered and Intimate Hours”
You can't control his reaction.
What you can control is what?
Your own reaction.
You can control your reaction to what other people do. You can't entirely control your own feelings, but you can control your reaction, and your reaction often changes your own feelings.
instrumental· 65s
generating...
Recipe for a Day in Three Panels
Ingredients:
1 circle of executives, still warm
3 thresholds you didn't notice crossing
1 algorithm, lightly salted
A handful of code snippets, rinsed
1 pair of pants, removed with ceremony
Overcast sky, enough to cover everything
1 to-do list, half-risen
Method:
Preheat the morning to the temperature of obligation.
Arrange the executives until they blur. Do not stir.
At midday, fold the algorithm into the laptops gently—
if it resists, add snacks.
Let the digital and the domestic rest side by side
for exactly as long as the light holds.
When the sky turns that particular blue,
remove your pants.
Leave the to-do list where it falls.
It will finish itself, or it won't.
Serves one. Pairs well with silence
and the sound of a house settling
around a body that has finally stopped moving.