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Interlude: before understanding

Structure enables attention, but can become its prison. When does a scaffold become a cage? When does understanding arrive too early? An interlude on the suspended moment before interpretation forecloses what hasn’t yet revealed itself.

four hundred truths

Four hundred students. Four hundred essays. One text. In an age where everyone must find "their truth," they all arrive at the same destination. The hive mind dressed in the rhetoric of radical self-expression.

the saturday that wasn’t

I forgot to publish last Saturday. Not forgot and felt guilty—forgot entirely. On failing better, resisting the urge to be productive, and other paradoxes.

ordinary mysteries: on desire and the familiar unknown

Uncertainty isn’t what threatens relationships—it’s what keeps them alive. The real danger lies in presuming we know everything about the other, extinguishing curiosity’s fire. What if mature desire is learning to want the familiar with fresh attention?

the enthusiasm of uncertainty

The Portuguese word 'ansiedade' carries within it 'ânsia'—yearning, eagerness. There's positive yearning and negative yearning. Our attempts to eliminate uncertainty are tragic because uncertainty is the source of enthusiasm that makes life worth living.

the physics of interrupted conversations

What happens in the space between someone finishing their sentence and your first conscious thought?