Consider: When the Edge Gets Closer

5 thoughts on everything and nothing

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I had another post written and ready last week, but then the fires started a few miles away and things did not continue as I'd anticipated.

A couple years ago, I wrote "protect the flame" as my mantra for the year. The irony of that feels almost cruel now, but I was trying to name something about my tendency to lose sight of what's essential when life gets loud and complicated.

The line between everything and nothing is incredibly thin. I don't like living this close to that edge, but there's something clarifying about it. Crisis has a way of pointing out what parts of life you actually care about and which parts you've been performing. It shows you where you've been arranging your life…