Koyaanisqatsi (n.) from the Hopi language

crazy life.
life in turmoil.
life disintegrating.
life out of balance.
a state of life that calls for another way of living.

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Leisure without study is death.


— Seneca

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.


— Marcus Aurelius

Daniel. I say your name every day when I put your neck chain on. You left it in the car. It is chunky and silver and plain, and a constant tactile and visual reminder of you. It’s with me everywhere I go.

You’ve been gone 874 days now and for me the worst has passed. I took a few months off work last winter and sat alone in my sadness. I had to. I didn’t just lose you, I lost how things might have been, how things were supposed to be. I had to grieve for that too. It took me a while to realise this, and then to make peace with how I simply have no control over so many things in life and death — most of it is in the hands of God, or fate, or however else people choose to frame this beautiful, terrifying existence we are all born into.

This is one of my favourite photos of you. You’re aged eight or nine, and we’re on the very beach where you would disappear a decade later. I will never go back there. You’re here with me, around my neck, in my chest. Daniel. My sweet boy. I miss you.

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