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  • Home
  • THE STORY
  • NAVIGATE THE UNIVERSE
  • RADIO
  • Who Is Ryze?
  • Who Is Shyne?
  • Who Is Luma?
  • About The Author
  • Supporting Characters
  • RyzeCo System Files
  • …  
    • Home
    • THE STORY
    • NAVIGATE THE UNIVERSE
    • RADIO
    • Who Is Ryze?
    • Who Is Shyne?
    • Who Is Luma?
    • About The Author
    • Supporting Characters
    • RyzeCo System Files

Chapter 60 Someone Holding On

Ryze takes a part time weekend job at Whisper Ridge; not because he needs it, but because he sees a way to help neighbors.

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Ryze's Journal

There are days when the world's biggest questions seem to demand all of our attention.

Then there are days when a bearing wears out on an old grain elevator.

One problem might affect satellites.

The other affects a neighbor.

Both matter.

This weekend reminded me that technology isn't always about building something new. Sometimes it's about helping preserve something that has served people faithfully for many years.

Watching everyone work together to solve a practical problem also reminded me that knowledge doesn't belong to one person. Every experience matters. Every pair of hands contributes something different.

Shyne has a way of seeing people before she sees problems.

Luma mostly supervised.

She insists this is an important engineering role.

I decided not to argue.

There is a line in this week's song that stayed with me after the work was finished:

Sometimes all it needs is someone holding on.

I don't think those words are only about machines.

Sometimes they describe friendships.

Sometimes they describe hope.

Sometimes they describe ourselves.

Thank you for spending another weekend with us at Whisper Ridge.

I'll see you again next Saturday.

— Ryze

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