Day 285 of 2025
“Gears of Stillness, Sand of Silence”
zen garden, n.
1. A surface that remembers every passage across it.
2. The discipline of erasing footprints before they become paths.
3. (archaic) A gear stripped of its teeth, placed where it can no longer turn, and venerated for this.
4. The sound a leaf makes when it lands on something that has been perfectly still for a very long time.
5. See also: convalescence; patina; the space a machine leaves when it stops.