“We are living through the rise of anti-intellectualism in America. Scientists are mocked, teachers threatened, truth dismantled piece by piece. Trump doesn’t want informed citizens. He wants rich loy...

Alt: She isn’t watching the waves, not really. Her gaze is fixed somewhere between the clouds and the endless blue, but her mind is miles away, tangled in the fine, wearing threads of the day. In her hand, the string of a yellow balloon tugs gently, a stubborn sun against the muted sky. It would be so easy. A single, slow uncurling of her fingers. And so she does. She doesn’t throw it; she simply lets go. The string slips, and the balloon hesitates for a heartbeat, as surprised as she is. Then it climbs, a slow, silent ascension. It carries with it the tightness in her shoulders, the weight of decisions unmade, the echo of a voice raised in frustration. She watches the bright dot diminish, a pinprick of joy returning to the sky. The vastness of the sea and the air claims it, and in that claiming, claims a piece of her quiet struggle, too. The sea breathes in and out, a rhythm the world has always known. And she, now lighter, sits within the window's frame—a still point between the drifting clouds and the slow, certain release.

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