🍣 zoom out to zen

“We thus dilate
Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.”
Lord Byron

(Is this even the right way to block quote a piece of poetry? Anyway.)

When our daughter was born, i had a clear view of… well, me as an old man.

And i thought very simply, ‘if i do my job well with you, then i can go.’

In other words, i saw myself near death, and it felt strangely…