Ain't it the truth.

Balance is the result of many tiny adjustments.

Each spoke to the other as if to a deer in the forest.

Bad.

Not bad like naughty.  Not fiendish or dastardly.   Not outwardly “mean” at all.  Just bad.  Absent of good.  Cold.  Unaware.  Isolated.  Disconnected.  You know, bad.

Real time historian.

Words fail.

The line ain't gonna walk itself.

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The notion that “the ends justify the means” is only invoked when the means are unjustifiable.