presence

  • Chasing Butterflies

    There is a strange little meadow that very few people ever notice. Not because it is hidden. Because nobody stays still long enough to see it. The butterflies there are unlike any you’ve ever imagined. Their wings shimmer with colors that seem to change depending on who is looking at them. Gold for the ambitious.…

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  • People who had access to you never really understood how unavailable you were to the rest of the world… until they became the rest of the world. That version of you… it felt easy, didn’t it? Before all of this. Before the awareness.Before the language.Before you started dissecting your own existence like it was something…

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  • You didn’t land here the way you think you did. You arrived. Quietly. Completely. With no memory of the place you came from and no map for where you’re going next. That’s part of the design. You stepped into a body like stepping into a suit. Not permanent. Not owned. Just worn long enough to…

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  • There is nothing here.That is what you are certain of.You move through days like empty rooms,counting what is missing instead of what is present. You keep waiting for something to arrive.A sign. A shift. A moment that proves this place has weight.You look outward, scanning the horizon,as if meaning is supposed to walk toward you.…

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  • Don’t Ask Alice-Entry I

    (Headphones on-Tycho-Awake) Nothing happened today. No collapse. No epiphany. No moment dramatic enough to tell someone about. The kind of day that would have terrified me once because it offered nothing to cling to. I woke up without urgency. No need to check messages to see who still wanted me. No inventory of what I…

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  • There’s a quiet shift that happens when you stop tugging on yesterday and stop rehearsing tomorrow.It isn’t dramatic.It doesn’t arrive with a lesson or a warning.It just settles around you like warm air in a room that finally remembers the shape of your breathing. Being here — right here — is its own kind of…

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