Who Tripped the Circuit Breaker? 🔌

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Damon Brown
March 11, 2026

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Hi reader,

Things have been stripped down since the beginning of the year

Taking amazing trips at the last minute without prep time

Home issues putting away my usual creature comforts

Sudden career opportunities demanding action now

I told a friend lately that my life has been “chaotic good”

(The universe, not me)

It’s as if unplugged from the systems we depend on

That move as silent as an air conditioner’s hum

Until you recognize the framework

Has become a crutch 🩼

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The lovely part is that seasons like this turn you into a surfer

Intuiting when something will crest, when it will crash

When it trembles just under the surface.

It washes away the unessentials

Or the unessentials that you thought were essentials

And leave the core, the essence, and the foundational

The necessary.

I’ve found the lesson isn’t that things can be taken away at any time

Rather, what we build our security on are castles of sand.

What we truly need cannot be washed away

As our real security are the things invisible

And so deep within ourselves

Nothing could separate 🌊

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