October 10, 2026

Saturday

Shoulder Deep in Inscrutable Sand

In today's journal

Some faces refuse to give anything away, even after thousands of years of staring at the same horizon. A word of the day and an old photograph keep company with a patient monument that has watched the sand come and go.

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