Piers

I didn’t start with a crisis.

I started with a door.

It was one of those normal interior doors that used to close with a lazy click. Then it started needing a shoulder. Then it started scraping like it was mad at the floor.

And because I’m me, I did the classic sequence:

1. assume it’s humidity
2. ignore it for a week
3. stare at it in the morning like it’s a personal betrayal
4. finally look around for something else that changed

That’s when I noticed the hairline crack I’d been mentally filtering out.