phrases

Something moved them, irked them, inspired them, possessed them, and then electricity shot everywhere in their brain and then—crucially—they laid fingers on keys and put that electricity inside the computer. Writing is a costly signal of caring about something. Good writing, in fact, might be a sign of pathological caring.

loss for words

Hiking on Scree and Talus

a little eddy in the spacetime continuum where I can hide out while I cross a few more things off my to-do list

the pleasure of courage

every moment I dither is a moment I suffer