Letters to My Nephew - mauriceling/mauriceling.github.io GitHub Wiki

This is not a book nor advice nor a map
It begins as a margin where life pauses long enough to leave a mark
I write because time is asymmetric
It takes years to learn what can be said in a few careful lines
It takes a lifetime to know what should not be said at all
These letters are not meant to persuade
For they do not explain the world
They sit beside it like a stone beside a path
To be noticed only by those who are already walking
I write as one who has crossed
From accumulation to reduction
From proving to paying attention
Some truths arrive early and are useless then
Some arrive late and are exact
These letters wait for their season
They are written without urgency
Without sentiment and without expectation of reply
If they are ever read
Let them be read slowly
If they are misunderstood
Let them be misunderstood honestly
If they are forgotten
That too is a complete outcome
This is not legacy but alignment
A signal placed in time with no demand that it be received
— 03/01/26