Other than that, we settled in LA. I wrote a bunch of words and nearly finished my book. & I kept a 5 yo alive for another year. Even got that 5 yo into physics by reading bedtime stories about Einstein and the stars.

Also wrote about realism and experiments in physics and fiction.

‘Physics asks simple questions: it asks the possible. Fiction asks the hardest from us, the impossible. To know the world, we need both.’

aeon.co/essays/how-t...

Second, I wrote about a birthday, long ago, also for @therumpus.net

"the first intimacy I experienced, the first occasions of awe and uninhibited joy I can remember, all happened on the same day, the day my dad decided it was time for me to shoot a gun."

therumpus.net/2024/08/20/j...

Thanks to @evolbrain.bsky.social and @jbwallingford.bsky.social for reading it and discussing it with me.

Thanks to @asheld.bsky.social for talking me back from a ledge.

This was a journey, 3 years in the making. Thanks to @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social for inspiring the idea years ago during an interview.

Thanks to @chanda.bsky.social for reading one of the 40 early drafts and asking after it.