Truths we keep rehearsing

~ and fiction, and calendar manipulation; the stories we tell ourselves before work starts

We know fiction when we see it, don’t we?

Except, apparently, when it arrives disguised as a plan.

Worse, when it’s a plan we hatched ourselves …

The hardest lies/unrealistic expectations we encounter may not be political, cinematic, or edited for streaming. They may be those brave little promises we keep making to ourselves. The ones we refuse to let go …