Area of life · 04
Home, family and roots
4 cards in this area, and the writing filed under them.
The rules
What you may have learned
No. 02 · Ecological griefThe EarthkeeperYou may have learned that this kind of grief is dramatic, or hopeless, or too big to be a real feeling, something for scientists and activists to manage rather than something an ordinary person is allowed to sit with.→No. 28 · LegacyThe AncestorYou may have learned that what you leave behind has to be big enough to matter, a title, an achievement, something with your name on it.→No. 31 · The version of you that's still waitingThe Returning OneYou may have learned that the child you were, before any of this, got left behind for a reason, and that whatever came after was the necessary trade, with no option to go back now.→No. 39 · Softness and tendernessThe Tender OneYou may have learned that softness is a liability, and that the safest thing is to stay hardened, just in case.→
Writing
Filed under this area
Essay9 Dec 2025First, do no harmPolly Higgins, ecocide, and what it would mean to make care the legal baseline.→Reflection25 Nov 2025What is the economy for?For decades we’ve been told growth is the goal. The better question is growth of what, and for whom, and what the whole thing was meant to serve in the first place.→Essay8 Jul 2025Home and rootsA train from London to Essex, a hollow heart, and the difference between where you live and where you come from.→
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