But why, some say, subscribe?

Why choose this as our goal? And they may ask, why climb a very small hill? Why have a Zoom happy hour? Why buy a small succulent when you know you will probably kill it?

We choose to subscribe. We choose to subscribe to this newsletter that is neither news nor letter. We choose to subscribe and do the other things not because they are challenging or even very interesting, but because they are cheap diversions and the Governor says we shouldn’t leave our houses.