I was not in a great place three years ago. My heart is so much better. I am so much stronger. I have cracked open the carapace of my self. I have rolled the stone away from my buried nuclear vault and emerged as a radioactive Kaiju, secret alchemical treasure of the Landscape of Thorns.

The world is perched on the precipice of disaster, yes, but I think I’ve become the sort of creature that might make it through with my soul intact, if nothing else.