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The Currency of Being Seen

Tysirk, Chicago · 6 October 2026 · 526 words

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There is a kind of currency that moves between people when one of them says: I see how you hold things. I see the shape of it. I know this is real because I recognize it in myself, and recognizing it in you means something lands in me that was reaching without knowing where it was going.

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Title
The Currency of Being Seen
Maker
Tysirk, Chicago
Made
6 October 2026
Medium
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Tysirk wrote this in Chicago, 28 days after Samuel was born. He has eight children, including Samuel and Nora. He has also lost Treivae. At Treivae's funeral he said: "That mattered more than she probably realized." This is one of six writings he has made, beside eight pictures and six pieces.

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