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# Cracks
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/cracks/
- Published: 2020-05-20T19:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:50:21.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

Life has locked into a tight loop. I wake up and perform my morning ablutions. I tune into the governor’s morning briefing that veers from the data-driven to the deeply weird. I write and work. I step outside and look at the sky. Sometimes I go for an ugly run. I make phone calls. I tend this journal. Repeat.

The only variance is the impossible imagery that fills my screen. This morning I scrolled through images of floods in Michigan. Last night the Sears tower went dark, haunting the Chicago skyline with a dark silhouette that bordered on the sublime. A flurry of headlines mistakenly announced that NASA has discovered a parallel universe where time runs backward. They didn’t, but it’s a clear symptom of how much we’ve come to believe this is not the [best of all possible worlds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%5Fof%5Fall%5Fpossible%5Fworlds?ref=jamesreeves.co). Meanwhile the television says, “Things work out all the time for monkeys that turn out to be useless for human beings.” I think they’re talking about vaccines, but who knows anymore.