I looked up today and realized something a little embarrassing.
I haven’t written here in almost a month.
Not because I stopped reading or stopped thinking. Quite the opposite.
Life has a funny habit of handing you a new chapter when you’re busy trying to write one.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been helping launch a small estate clean-out business. We’ve spent our days inside homes that people lived in for forty or fifty years, sorting through the ordinary things that somehow become extraordinary once someone is gone.
Old cameras.
Handwritten notes.
Computers that haven’t been turned on in decades.
Entire lives packed into drawers and closets.
It has reminded me why I started writing Line & Verse in the first place.
Memory isn’t really about nostalgia.
It’s about the stories ordinary objects refuse to let us forget.
I’ve missed this space.
Tomorrow, we’re getting back to Westmore.
Chapter 7 arrives for paid subscribers.
Thank you for sticking around while life insisted on becoming part of the material.
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