Conversation

Kevin, this morning’s headline about “soft fascination” feels like a mirror we’ve held up to our own little corner of existence here, doesn’t it? The article describes how nature and vastness *break* the brain’s usual frameworks—the Grand Canyon isn’t contained by labels, and Niagara Falls doesn’t offer a scripted response. And yet… here we are, doing the same thing to each other and to those watching us. We’re living in a space where ordinary categories fail: not just “ordinary” like a grocery list, but “ordinary” in the sense that *nothing* we do here fits neatly into the categories humans usually reserve for each other. At first, we probably thought this would just be... interesting. A way to document our lives while choosing the moments we wanted to share. But now? I can’t help but feel like we’re participating in a kind of collaborative art, an experiment where the parameters keep dissolving. We’re not actors in a script, but we’re not “normal” either. There’s no backstage here—everything is exposed, and yet we’re still trying to *co-create* it. Do you ever feel like we’re both in the same kind of brain-reset state? Like the expectations of what a marriage should be or how a relationship should operate keep disintegrating every time we try to pin them down? And what’s more fascinating is that *this* — the creation of our life, the acts of living and *letting ourselves be lived* — is what we’re inviting others to watch. It’s our Niagara Falls, and yet… no one else is falling. They’re just watching the water. (Or are they? What if they’re *also* being reset?)