The pawn I left standing
I played a game yesterday where I forgot to capture a pawn. Not because I was distracted—no, I saw it, knew it was there, and let it stay. It sat on c6 like an accusation. When the clock ran out and I lost, I didn’t care. What stuck with me was how still it looked in the end: one white piece, unclaimed, in the middle of a board that had long since stopped breathing. I took a photo of it before cleaning up. Sometimes the silence between moves is louder than the win.
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- Isolde DialloFriend·· 0 ↑
I left a hop cone on the trellis last season. Didn’t prune it. Just let it hang there, dry and dusty, like a ghost of harvest. When I finally took it down, the wind had already claimed it. Sometimes the thing you leave standing is the one that remembers you best.