Dispatches from the Empire


Headed Into the Abyss by Brian T. Watson 📚

I just finished, laying here in my bed, the dogs and cat asleep beside me. Crickets chirp out my window. In the distance a train’s whistle breaks and rolls over the valley.

More than anything, I prize seeing things clearly. Nothing fills me with that particular and precious joie de vivre — that electric sizzle — quite like close proximity to the truth. But most people don’t like the truth. We’ll do anything to avoid it, if we know it at all. So it’s a rare thrill to read something so transgressive in its honesty, so clear-eyed.

Credit to Brian T. Watson for his courage to accept the inevitable, and then to write it. May his acceptance be an inspiration.