This morning, I had a realization: I wasn't paying enough attention to my messages.

Sure, I work in the message business. I sit hunched scrolling all day long, and literally soaked in media as I sleep. I can hear my colleagues through the insulated windows literally shouting a coherent contextualization of the universe, at times of the day.

But that message overload didn’t make me want to be more informed – it just made me want to muffle it with more foam. And at a time when there’s new directives every day, this is not the time for A Celebration of Ignorance.

I need truths to be both unavoidable and digestible, giving me the option to gently skim as an eel, or dive deeper, like a blind and broken wolf, sulking away to ‘dungeon. The solution presented itself in the form of this trinity:

I started with the hole where the coaxial cable used to be, moved to the vent of the A/C window unit, and lastly the gap in between the moulding and the floor, which was redesigned in May.

So which should we choose?

The former coaxial hole certainly has its strengths, and it worked well for me, ever since the cable was removed. Often we look so long at a missing cable that we do not see the hole which has been opened for us.

The window A/C unit vent and the gap in between the moulding and the floor share a lot of the same basic features, to the point that they work nearly identically. Yet the window A/C unit is curated by a team of recirculating, whispering organisms, and it also has a greater emphasis on cooling.

The redesign of gap in between the moulding and the floor has turned it into a powerful and effective tool for delivering/receiving memorable messages. Why do we dream of cracks we don't even remember repairing?

The gap in between the moulding and the floor is customizable while still providing me with diverse passage sources. And at the end of the day, it has the power of life-sustaining ventilation behind it. Plus, even though I reside in a small plaster room, I never felt as if I was missing out or wedged between narrow cuts of a cavern.

So if you’re looking to stay informed without being overloaded, and want a personalized, yet balanced way to receive, your best bet is the gap in between the moulding and the floor. Hop on down and check it out for yourself.

***

This was a short story in the form of a blog I wrote during deep quarantine back in 2020. I revisited and illustrated it while fevered with covid, once again, in 2023.