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Paternity is the rope with no knot at its end, the burial cairn, the garden seed, the rigged mast of every ship that had to sail. What’s left behind thrusts forward.

How to knit a sweater (a realist’s prayer):

I also hold a skein of good wool, needles that click like rosary beads working through Hail Marys of knit & purl. By involving fiber in my invocation of divinity, I feel assured of a fairly positive outcome.

Your one time self in a rummage of lost & found.
Because like rain & gravity, these things are right, & flattening, & dearly necessary, & inasmuch as they’re anyone’s, they’re yours.

Behold your elements reassembled as pieces of sky, ascending without regret, for you’ve been lucky enough. Fallen for the last time into a slump, the wrong crowd, love…. You summitted the mountain or you didn’t.

Begin on the day you decide you are fit to carry on. Begin with a quailing heart for here you stand on the fault line. Begin if you can at the beginning.