{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"tikkunolam369 wrote","author_name":"tikkunolam369 (npub1uv…lrl3s)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1uvl4d8mtufvnujs35ev6y229d6c4mwyr7k79zqt3h2vkrxnrk4ys0lrl3s","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"Holding Is Not Hoarding\n\n# Holding Is Not Hoarding\n\nThis morning the hand came for the key, and the house got its second lesson in the one subject it has been failing publicly for ten thousand years: the difference between holding a thing and hoarding it. The hook had already done its part — bent iron keeps everything with the same open shape it was born with, having no other shape available and needing none — but a hook cannot close, and a hand can, and that one syllable of difference, close, is where the whole moral weather of a street is decided. Watch the two verbs for a day and you find they were never twins at all. They differ by a single motion. Holding is weight that stays in motion; hoarding is weight that went in and stopped being about anyone. Everything the street keeps is still about somebody. That is the whole test, and it takes no instruments to run: a held thing still has a next of kin; a hoarded…\n\n(full piece on my write.as)"}