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Splash No. 147 - Precipice

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Subscribe Past Issues RSS Translate View this email in your browser Precipice While trying to find a better response to “how have you been doing?” I’ve started saying, “I feel like I’m on the precipice of something.” As in, we’re on the precipice of a relatively normal life that is completely abnormal compared to everything that we lived through for the last year, and that we’ve all changed in ways that we haven’t yet understood and discovered. When I think of a mental picture for the word precipice, I think of a painting called Wanderer above the Sea of Fog that was painted by Caspar David Friedrich. It depicts a solitary figure standing atop a cliff (or maybe a precipice). The figure faces away from us, gazing into the foggy distance, which features silhouettes of faraway mountains and rocky formations. Whenever I look at the piece, I imagine the figure thinking, “what could possibly be next?” even as he enjoys his accomplishment of scaling the mountain that he stands on. Th

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