OPEN QUESTION
Whether we are standing still
The question
The sentence you did not say out loud, that watching Hannah with hers makes you feel like you and Danny are standing still, and arguing with it has not made it go anywhere.
What hangs on it
It arrives through other people's photographs rather than as a decision. You describe it as watching somebody speak a language you did one semester of at university and could probably pick up again but have not, with the gap getting slightly wider every year. You disqualify the feeling as unfair almost before you have finished saying it, listing the house, the dog, how hard Danny works, and the sentence stays anyway. Thirty four in August.
Evidence
Latest 5 of 12
“Then I thought, you are thinking about a baby again, in a yard, at four fifteen, about a dog, and went back to bed.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“And I thought, I could do this.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“Both of us thinking the same sentence and both of us deciding the car was not the place.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“The woman at the shelter said he is good with kids. Unprompted. Neither of us said anything in the car afterwards, and the not-saying took up the entire drive home.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“That is three now. Three times this spring I have opened my mouth with the real sentence loaded and swapped it out.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →
These do nothing here. On your own map this card is yours to reword, hide or delete, and every quote opens the entry it came from.