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A Letter to My Children
I asked the machine what it would take from my children, if they let it. I told it not to be gentle.
Jul 21 • Craig Powell
Two Roads to the Same Clearing (Part Three)
A man, a mind that is not human, and what each can bring the other. The final essay in the trilogy.
Jul 14 • Craig Powell
Two Roads to the Same Clearing (Part Two)
What it may be, as far as it can honestly go
Jul 7 • Craig Powell

June 2026

Two Roads to the Same Clearing
On a place reached by two roads
Jun 30 • Craig Powell
The News Was On
On a world that is terrible and close to perfect at the same time.
Jun 23 • Craig Powell
The Quiet Magic of Ordinary Things
Why a sunset holds you and a wall doesn't.
Jun 16 • Craig Powell
Depth
Where the mind cannot follow.
Jun 9 • Craig Powell
The Space Between
On the small space where a life is actually decided.
Jun 2 • Craig Powell

May 2026

The Body Remembers
Resilience has a cost. The body keeps the account.
May 25 • Craig Powell
When Everything Falls Apart
On the brave face, and the strength that holds when nothing else does.
May 18 • Craig Powell
Purpose and Biology — They Were Never Separate
What Okinawa, the science of ageing, and a quiet question have in common.
May 12 • Craig Powell
Before It Ends
The Work is ending. The relationship remains.
May 5 • Craig Powell
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