Marcus returned again and again to how everything flows and shifts, seasons, bodies, even empires. At first this sounds like cold comfort. But impermanence cuts both ways. The hard season will pass too. The pain you're in now is not the final shape of your life. And the good things are made more precious, not less, by knowing they're on loan. Holding things gently isn't holding them at a distance. It's loving them fully while you have them, without clutching so tightly that the fear of losing them spoils the having. Change is the water we all swim in. Fighting it only tires you out.

Inspired by the old idea of impermanence. Written by Ugo Charles.