The Insurmountable Stuff of Being

In the company of Chikotkin's dead and living, I have come to believe the most terrifying thing about our future is not just what will change or cease but what must continue regardless. Restoring what has broken is a reminder to be careful with what is here now. It is an entreaty to make things last and to care for what will outlast our small tender lives. Our uneasy world needs his courage and his bodily sacrifice. But it also requires trading the temptation of apocalypse escapism for world historical humility,. For perseverance without certainty, for prophecies that hold space for more than people. We must make better ruins. My prosba here on this river is not