Beacon of Virtue

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Signal fires also burn the hand.

A beacon is not purity. It is a fire you maintain so others can navigate without asking who pays the wood.

Virtue advertised is virtue exhausted. The beacon works only if you accept the smoke in your own lungs.

Signal without warmth is lighthouse cruelty — visible, unmoved, proud of the distance.

Better a small lamp honest about fuel than a skyline performance of goodness.

The woodpile is lower than yesterday.

JV · Dark Heart Labs

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