Home Free by Tom Toro for December 04, 2024

For a while. You can only defy the odds for a while. Whoever’s at the top – and there’s no need to go into conspiracy theories – is more patient than you will ever be.

They’ll grind you down eventually, through peer pressure.

You can be the last one standing all your life, but when everybody has finally moved on, to a noticeably worse way of living, you’re no longer the quirky resistant. You’re now just a weirdo, stuck in the past.

Sorry, I’ve been drinking, and this hits too close to home.

I’m still stuck in the tree.

I think the raccoon has a better grip on reality than the kid does.

The leaves are stubbornly clinging to the dead oak sapling my landlord destroyed my perennial garden to plant.

Animals have a better knowledge of nature than humans do.

Milo is such a poet.

“The Last Leaf” by O’Henry.