This is a brick.

Hi all, first time/last time. I need to do some privacy hygiene so this account won't be live for much longer.

Pictured above is a brick. It doesn't look like a brick, because it's wrapped in felt and cotton. I use it to stabilize small areas of woven fabric for detailed reweaving/repair work.

But it weighs a bit more than 4.5 lbs and would go through a Tesla windshield just as well as any other.

Realizing that I had this, this weekend, has filled me with a strange kind of hope. Even when the next horrible thing comes up on my feed, I remember that I have this brick. I pick it up, feel its weight, then tuck it back in the closet beside the front door. I'm quite certain we all have a brick, or something like it, that we haven't yet realized we possess.

Maybe it's a metaphor. Maybe it's literal. Maybe it's both.

But I hope it gives others something to think about.