🎧 Waypoint 3.1 — The Iron Key

How many legacies end in ash — and what traces do we leave behind?

This is the first audio installment of Season 3 of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.

In this episode: I read aloud Waypoint 3.1 — The Iron Key — a reflection on volcanic fire, fragile blossoms, Pompeii’s ashes, and the strange graffiti we leave behind. It’s about how ambition and catastrophe entwine, and how memory survives in traces more fragile — and more enduring — than we imagine.

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