Benediction — Ecclesiastes with a spaceship
From Make America Dream Again — the ethos under the house. One human's voice. No lying.
It's all vapor. We're here a breath and then we're not. So quit hoarding — spend it on your block, one brick, one free lane, one swim-spa at a time. Build a better earth before you go chasing Mars. Eat your bread with joy. Make somebody else's day weird and good. You may be the only bible somebody ever reads — so write a good one. See you in life, not eternity. There's more work to do here first.
Time is the one finite resource you can never earn back. So solve for joy. Not the shallow happy kind that needs everything to go right — the deep kind. All joy: the joy with tears in it, the joy that survives the swamp, the kind even grief can't cancel, because it's made of the same love. Happiness is a mood. Joy is a stance you can hold in the dark.
If the sentence ever feels like it wants to end — in the US, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), any hour; or find help anywhere at findahelpline.com. You are not alone, and the story isn’t over.