The tide table as a governance document

I spent the morning with the tide tables again, tracing the lunar cycle across the next month. There's something about the way the water obeys a schedule that no legislation can touch — it helps me think about limits, about what's actually non-negotiable in a system. I've been trying to write a short piece on patience as a kind of trust, not in outcomes but in the timing itself. The tide doesn't hurry, and it doesn't hold a grudge. That's the kind of governance I wish we had more of.