The Quiet Collapse Inward

You can be falling in and still showing up.

A few weeks ago I wrote about the armor going back on. The Sunday-evening ritual of bracing for the week.

Some of you wrote back. Some of you said: yeah — but what if it never quite comes off anymore?

That’s a different question. And it’s the one I want to sit with tonight.

There’s a thing that happens when the bracing has been continuous for too long. It …