2026.01.DisappearingMoment: Meaningful Patterns in My Pareidolia

My beloved American Library Association broke my heart this month. (This was not the first time.) The details are immaterial. I have seen it happen to everyone who cares about this association. My friends, mentors, and heroes deserve better. No matter how much you love a community or an organization, it cannot love you back. Our irrational, steadfast belief that they can is a form of pareidolia .…