Transmission 071: Holes

When you’re in a hole, dig yourself some stairs.

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--- NeilA ---
August 19, 2025

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- - - - - GREETINGS, EARTHLING - - - - -

I’m not having a great day today. Feeling low.

But I’m going to keep going.
Not because I feel like it,
but because I remember how it feels to feel better.

And I trust that feeling will come back. If I let it happen.
Ups and downs.

So I move.
I do one thing.
Then another.

Not grand gestures.
Not lightning bolts of clarity.
Just motion.

Write this newsletter.
Lift some weights.
Do a few chores.
Meditate.

You fake the momentum until it’s real.
It’s not heroic. Maybe it is.
But it’s how you win the day.
It’s how you dig yourself out of holes.

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Petrichor.

The smell after a rain. Yes, it has its own name.

A mix of plant oils and a molecule named geosmin,
released when dry Earth meets water again.

But you already knew that.
Not the science, the feeling.

That smell that says
something just ended,
and something else might begin.

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You opened the Fridge Portal. Purpose forgotten. What do you reach for?

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Float well, Earthling.
NeilA

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