My blog serves as a gallery of the mind, showcasing pieces that are curated and shaped by deliberate thought and reflection. Where a diary simply logs daily events—punctuated, perhaps, by brief flashes of feeling—it functions primarily as a sketchbook. Essays, by contrast, demand a certain craftiness. Yet, to say they are heavily “crafted” might beContinue reading “51. Notes from a Leaf-Strewn Road”