It’s sunny and slightly less cold, and I thought we were getting snow today, but I guess that came and went. The sky is bright and the snow on the ground is brighter.
As I listen to the muted whir of the traffic, the creaks and bumps and wind at the window, once again I think about how the earth itself doesn’t need us. How it has gone on for a span of time so vast our brains can’t really compute it.
How snow fell on landscapes we never saw, watched by eyes of creatures who never even overlapped with us.
How we could vanish, every one of us, and new creatures, in what remains of the ruins of us, will look up at a cloudless sky, will leave tracks we’ll never see in snow that we never saw.
Time is so long, at least for us, and we occupy so very little of it.
Good things happen and bad things happen but that has to be for everyone and everything around us.
Maybe birds feel dread too.
Eventually, all water, no matter how rough, smooths over, like nothing ever happened.
That doesn’t stop the destruction of the waves, though.
Well, that’s enough abstract thought for all of us today. I hope you have an excellent Thursday.
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