are you tired when you wake up? do you feel the weight of the world, heavy on your eyelids? all that has been, and all that is to come — what a lot to make yourself carry.

lie back down for a while. let us savor that place between wakefulness and sleep — where we roll our dreams like dice, attempting to catch the fragments before they slip through our fingertips.

(internet diary, january 24, 2024)