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Oct 6/26 Some mornings I know the number before I look. Roll over, tap the phone, and there it is, confirming what I already felt — slept fine, low resting heart rate, nothing to report. Other mornings the number disagrees with me flat out, and my first instinct isn'
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Sept. 30/26 This week the assignment was just to notice — not fix anything, not journal a treatise, just pay attention to how alcohol sounded when it came up. Was it a craving, some old rope pulling tight, or was it more like being asked if I wanted more coffee
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You don't trust a season, you trust a run of them. That's not something a study taught me — it's just how farming teaches you to read anything, because a single season lies about as often as it tells the truth. A wet year looks
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Sept. 23/26 I've been wearing a continuous glucose monitor for a while now — a Libre 3 stuck to the back of my arm, quietly logging what my blood sugar does every few minutes, day and night. I got it mostly out of curiosity, the same instinct that
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I spent a lot of summers learning that the feeling telling you something's wrong is usually the last one to show up, not the first. By the time you notice, whatever's actually happening has been happening for a while. This week's reading kept handing
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Sept. 16/26 Three months ago I upgraded to the Gen 5 Oura ring, and once it was on my finger I mostly forgot about it, the way you forget about a wedding band or a callus. It just rode along, quietly counting things I wasn't paying attention
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There's a pattern I ran into three times this week, in three rooms that don't usually talk to each other: something that used to happen on its own has quietly stopped happening on its own, and getting it back means doing it on purpose now. I
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Sept. 9/26 There's a number that gets thrown around in the research on aging — somewhere between three and eight percent of muscle mass, lost per decade, starting around thirty and picking up speed after sixty. Sarcopenia, they call it, which is a tidy word for something that
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Sept. 8/26 Trust what you can see and touch over what sounds good on paper. I wrote that line about food this month, half-thinking it belonged only to food. By the end of the week it had shown up twice more, in a glucose graph and in an
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Sept. 2/26 I pulled up two nights on the Libre 3 app last week, side by side, because I couldn't stop thinking about the difference. One night the Oura Ring gave me an 89 sleep score — deep sleep where it should be, heart rate dropped and stayed
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Sept.1/26 I used to think most of the important systems in a life ran themselves. The body handled its own business overnight. A letter sealed in an envelope stayed private without anyone doing a thing to keep it that way. You didn't manage these things — you
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Aug 25/26 I've come around to trusting the small, boring, repeatable thing over the elaborate one. That's not a new belief exactly — twenty-seven years of watching complicated systems, irrigation timing, rotation, weather nobody could predict, will teach you that lesson eventually whether you'