The Cipher – 3rd July 2026

Today, I will grow more grass,
though I still don’t understand it,
but that’s a thrill for me to say
I don’t know.

Let’s play a game of guessing
and say the outrageous ideas aloud.
Maybe today, we’ll crack the code
together.

Inspired by Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, 6 [A child said, What is the grass?] and this analysis of poetry in general by Isaac Kolding, from which I learned that grass was another name for poetry. I seem to be riffing on the idea of ‘I don’t know’ often these days.


Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Turn Have To Into Get To

Align your will with whatever happens
So nothing happens against your will
All those things you get to do
The mundane ‘have to’ ‘gets to’ be a thrill