Vol. IAugust 2026
observations

The Glow of Streetlamps Through Morning Fog

"The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong." — Lois Farrow Parshley, translating Simone Weil --- There is a particular morning I keep returning to. Not because anything happened. Nothing did. I was standing at a bus stop in London sometime...

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A meditation on the liminal moment between night and day in a European village square, when the world belongs only to those who rise before it.
— from “The Hour Before the Town Wakes”, by Michael Kovnick

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