Fear and Hiraeth in Ingham County
Winter here in the land of Q.D. donut munchers is weird. Particularly the aimless, wandering weekend nights. They seem somehow more empty than the workweek ones filled with the noise and chaos of tin flying machines. When it is this still, things echo and feel brittle. There is too much hollow space for the cognitive distortion to gain ground. And that too often leads to dysfunctional choices. Because behaviors change when the sun falls behind the Mitten. Things you never imagined yourself doing suddenly start appearing in the rearview mirror of recent memory. And like the sticker always cautions, those things are much closer than they appear. Memories of pinballing inside an apartment filled with too many typewriters. Of too many hours …
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