Our muscles are prompted to grow by failure, healing from countless micro-injuries. Our minds, science, and technology are similarly nourished by defeat. We are creatures born to thrive on the borderlands of ruin. Home is a valley between saw-toothed peaks of loss. Here we sow failure and harvest miracles
— Jarod K. Anderson, “Losing” in “Field Guide to the Haunted Forest” (Crooked Wall Press, December 3, 2020)(via A Layman’s Blog)
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