Sngewbha the new scheme wants to digitize health records, but my neighbour lost her file twice already. I have seen how a nurse who knows your mother's hip does more than any grand plan from far away. Their big ideas skip over what we actually need day to day.

Watching the triple jumpers, I think of planting beans in my kitchen garden—careful, measured steps, or the whole row is ruined. Sngewbha the sting when someone fouls by a thumb's width, like when I miscut a mending patch and had to start over. Rules are rules, and fairness doesn't bend for convenience, no matter how the heart aches.