I recently read a writeup that made me think of a happening in the news recently.

Coming on the waves of the Trump Administration's DEI purge, the Department of Offense has banned several books from schools the Department of Defense runs in the U.S. and abroad. One of these books is actress Julianne Moore's Freckleface Strawberry, which is (according to Moore herself) "a semi-autobiographical story about a seven year old girl who dislikes her freckles but eventually learns to live

They're replacing the trim of the doorframe at the bottom of the stairs. The repairs reveal a hollow cavity and I'm dragged into it. My body contorts and compresses, bones crushing and organs shifting, until I assume the long rectangular shape of the crevice. I wonder how many have been shoved into these small spaces and sealed up. Perhaps we will be rediscovered some day, like that frog in the Looney Tunes cartoon. I doubt we shall be as joyful.

I recall dreams often.