PS C:\> tar -xf True_Love_Glass_Museum_JPG.zip
Application_Install.exe
When you do the work — real work, the kind that costs you something — you get your people back. Or maybe they were never really gone, just waiting to see if you were going to show up differently. Three years of estrangement. Then sobriety. Then change that was real enough for someone else to feel it. And then a Tuesday in Tacoma, wandering through a glass museum with my daughter, shooting black and white on the Ricoh, just… being there together.
The lesson is simple even if it wasn’t easy: healing isn’t just for you. It ripples out. It reaches the people you hurt, the people you love, the relationships you thought were gone for good. You do the work, and sometimes — not always, but sometimes — you get a day like this. Quiet. Grounded. Real. No chaos attached.
That is the application. The rest is the source code.
Source_Code.txt
The open-source code below is free, for you to analyze, modify, and build your own application with.
> through the viewfinder: shooting_the_glass.jpg
We took a day trip to Tacoma and spent time at the glass museum together. I brought my camera and shot what caught my eye…shapes, shadows, lines, weird details that made me stop. Everything was black and white. I was just moving through the space, noticing what felt interesting, and clicking when it did. Shot on the Ricoh GRIIIx at 40mm.
> what the photos were never really about: reunion.log
What mattered most wasn’t the photos. It was being there with my daughter. We were estranged for three years before I got serious about managing my mental health and quit drinking. I am a different person now, so is she. Since reconnecting, we’ve been building something new, healthier, more honest, more grounded. Days like this feel big in a quiet way. Just being together, sharing experiences, making memories without chaos attached. I don’t take that for granted.
I’m grateful we get to do this now, and that we’re healing side by side.
> Display 202602: GLASSMUSEUM_*.JPG
> signal received: LOSING_CONTROL.SH
You realize that, yeah, you were never in control
And losing that control can feel like falling
But once you learn to let go
That’s when you start to fly