Five miraculous seconds

No reflections on what I learned or read in 2025. Instead, a bit of Hamlet

Laughter is contagious. Of course this is true of sorrow and passion and grief and vengeance as well, but laughter hits most quickly and true. Maybe laughter is more gutty. Maybe it is the eruption of underlying things ruining our falsely smooth expectations and illusory control of life. Maybe it’s mere animal nature of affirmation, the mutuality of …