Found Notes from the Quiet Collapse

“Not healing. Just friction management.” — marginalia on a form marked VOID 1. Closing the door. Not metaphorically. Literally. 2. Writing a to-do list that included “burn everything” and then doing one actual task. 3. Letting the email rot. 4. Dog videos. But only the ones where the dogs ignore everyone.

"The strength you admire in others is usually a form of damage management. We are not fine. We are just well catalogued." — from an unfilled memo, author unknown Things That Did Not Make Me Stronger 1. Things That Did Not Make Me Stronger 2. Crisis. Apparently, it builds