Prompt: Write about something growing.
The prompt for today, May 23rd, 2026, is write about something growing.
I think this is at the crux of all that I’ve been contemplating — my, I don’t know if it’s an existential crisis or a crisis of existence. I guess that’d be one and the same. But this seems to be at the heart of it.
This is the hurdle. It’s more than a hurdle. This is the mountain I’m climbing.
I feel somewhat like Sisyphus on this mountain of growth, in that I want to use this time I’ve been given fruitfully — to build something, to grow something, to have something to show at the end of it other than a healed wrist.
I think that’s why I’m taking on these different projects: growing herbs, trying to grow an olive tree, polishing rocks, this audio journal, 3D printing. It’s all in aid of trying to find a focus, to get some footing in order to climb this mountain.
And at each turn, I feel like I’m slipping.
It’s like there’s this rain creating a slippery surface. I don’t quite know how to explain that, but I’m not finding my footing despite putting all these things down. I don’t know if that’s me being hard on myself, or if that’s just the way these things go.
It could also be that because there are so many different types of footholds I’m putting down, I’m not sure how to take one step to the next.
I’ve been rock climbing before — when I was a teenager — and I remember there being different kinds of holds. For each type of rock, each type of surface, you need a different kind of grip.
And maybe, given where I am in life right now, I’m not yet able to adjust as things shift.
So growing — or climbing this mountain — hasn’t been easy.
I don’t really know where to take that.
But I’m also watching Emi grow, and that’s fantastic. It’s amazing, actually, to think about where she started and where she is today.
Not just in terms of physical growth, but in the way she’s becoming a little person. The way she rubs her eyes when she’s tired. Little things like that.
That’s really exciting to watch.
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I’ll talk to you tomorrow, folks.
Edited lightly with AI for clarity, punctuation, and readability while preserving the original voice, structure, and natural flow of the spoken reflection.
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