Wishes are for Fishes and Other Longings

The manifestation craze covers us our deepest doubts

We are boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly, swamped by doubts about our capacity to survive another day, another shift, another year, another climate disaster, another war, another innocent death by gunfire.

If only wishes really did come true.

If only we could manifest our deepest longings merely on the strength of our desires.

Don’t we all,…