unlanguaged
- alicia hoffman
The mosquito knows full well, small as he is
he’s a beast of prey.
But after all
he only takes his bellyful,
he doesn’t put my blood in the bank.

My hunch is that most of what we call depression is a loss of coherence.
- Martin Picard, The Diary of a CEO (July 2, 2026)
Teoria provisória
AR

Propósito,
eu te perdi
ou foi
a mitocôndria?

Confesso:
nem fui te procurar.
Fiquei aqui,
a contemplar.
STEVEN
Again, we're theorizing here. If I don't have purpose in my life, it's gonna change the mitochondria. And if my mitochondria become more inefficient, then what? What will I notice as the next symptom?

MARTIN
Probably fatigue is the next thing that starts to pop up. You feel drained. You don't feel like you have enough energy...

STEVEN
Burnout?

MARTIN
[It] probably feels like burnout, and you start to lose enthusiasm for the future. You become more pessimistic. There's a kind of constellation of things we call depression or burnout—we put labels on these things, but really every person starts to experience life as less enjoyable, less purposeful, less meaningful, regardless of the diagnostic title we put on.

The Diary of a CEO (July 2, 2026)
I know, Lilly. I know.

The Sheep Detectives, 2026


Whispered Poem
Mary Oliver

I have been risky in my endeavors,
I have been steadfast in my loves;

Oh Lord, consider these when you judge me.
All real living is meeting.
- Martin Buber, I and Thou
Today is a day of
dark clouds and slow rain.
The little blades of corn
are so happy.

- Mary Oliver
Don't think, but look!
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (§66)
For a large class of cases—though not for all—in which 
we employ the word 'meaning' it can be defined thus: 
the meaning of a word is its use in the language."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (§43)
On the beach, at dawn:
four small stones clearly
hugging each other.

How many kinds of love
might there be in the world,
and how many formations might they make

and who am I ever
to imagine I could know
such a marvelous business?

- Mary Oliver
6.522
There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself; it is the mystical.

7
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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como tivesse uma pedra na língua 
áspera troca tranca trinca
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entre outros rumores ainda
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