Observations on the world and its inhabitants
There are few things more unsettling than the idea that something unwanted has taken up residence inside your body. Microplastics have crossed from environmental concern to deeply personal intrusion, and the headlines have followed. Fragments in lung tissue. Particles in blood. Traces in the placenta. The reporting oscillates between quiet alarm and outright panic, and ...
Tarek, a man whose calendar was less a schedule and more a multi-dimensional chessboard of future possibilities, often found himself utterly baffled by the linear logic of others. He glided through life, a human equivalent of a satellite perpetually scanning for new celestial bodies, while many of his acquaintances seemed content to navigate by the ...
We’ve all been there: scrolling through our feeds, seeing a heartbreaking injustice, or hearing about a vital cause, and feeling that surge of “Someone must do something!” We share, we like, we comment with heartfelt emojis. But how often does that surge translate into actual, tangible action? In today’s hyper-connected world, it’s never been easier ...
