Seven Years Running

A Silver Spangled Hamburg rooster in an oatmeal cable-knit fisherman's sweater and dark wool flat cap, standing on a birch windowsill beside a steaming ceramic coffee mug, frost-covered window showing a snowy Nordic landscape beyond

Northern Latitudes

Seven years running, and still no one had asked him how he did it. That was the secret, of course. Contentment does not explain itself — it simply persists, like good posture.

23 March 2026