What Now?

December 4

Always there, always in the margin, waiting.

The second life stops being a sequence of reactions it lets itself in without so much as knocking—we spend our days solving the problems we create, or the unsolved problems created by others, and in the rare moments of space, the overwhelming question comes:

What now? What next? What will you do with your few brief moments of agency?

Due to email scheduling mismanagement, December 3rd’s morning reading is listed below :).

December 3 | The First Pancake

It was made with so much hope. All the anticipation and disappointment, now scorched and scalded, or oddly beige, like the color of the dentist’s office.

Everyone burns the first pancake. It’s never quite right—the forgotten ingredient throwing off the rise, or more often, all the heat in the pan rushing to the top, crisping and then blackening the first pancake to great effect.

You could answer this with research. Read up on recipes. Match your heat perfectly and scan for temperature.

Or you could tell yourself that here, you worship the old gods, the greek deity of pancakes, and offer them this firstborn of the griddle in all its blackened glory, a little older, a little wiser, ready for the next batch of batter.

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