Ram pulled me into inktober2025 and I’ve been at it so far. The week felt longer than usual mostly because each day had its own pause for sketching as the first act in the morning. The sketchbook is shaping up decent. Hoping to carry it through all 30 this month. Thanks to my friend for pushing me into it.

In the same spree, I started another small sketchbook just for Star Trek characters, adding a few quotes next to them as I finish. Took some breaks in between, but overall it’s been good. The quotes had always given me hope for future.

During the week I got to visit a healthcare for a Raspberry Pi camera installation. It was a fun little project and a nice change of pace.

Somewhere in the middle I also got sick. I finally caught the virus that’s been going around this season. It was pretty bad for 2-3 days, but I’ve recovered now.

Work has been going okay, but my head has been elsewhere mostly. The noise of politics has been hard to ignore, and the clash of views feels sharper than usual. At times it seems like we are at the bottommost of a curve: progress dipping low, it is bound to rise again like a sine wave, but uncertain in how deep or long this stretch will be. The thought lingers.

In moments like this, kindness feels less like a virtue and more like survival. However strong the differences in opinion, we still need to leave room for each other to live, to do what we are meant to do. I keep circling back to the same question: how to be a better human in the middle of all this. I don’t have answers yet, but I know it has to begin somewhere in this.