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+.Dd April 14, 2022
+.Dt AGENCY 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm Agency
+.Nd origin of a name
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+When I registered this domain name,
+it was aspirational.
+Intentionally so.
+I wanted a new domain
+for a new identity,
+and I was thinking about personhood.
+That's what causal agency means.
+.
+.Pp
+It really was aspirational
+for me at the time.
+I spent a lot of time
+wishing I could be a person,
+because I didn't feel like one.
+I didn't feel real,
+like everyone else was.
+I didn't have any power
+over my own life.
+Things just happened to me,
+and I watched.
+There wasn't really a
+.Dq me
+there.
+The world was something that happened
+but that I couldn't interact with.
+I felt like that
+for most of my life.
+.
+.Pp
+But at some point
+I decided that,
+even if I wasn't now,
+one day I hoped to be an actual real life person.
+Like most programmers
+I am dreadful at naming things,
+so I didn't come up
+with this clever domain name
+myself.
+I typed
+.Dq person
+into some thesaurus,
+and it gave back
+.Dq causal agent ,
+and I realized
+agency is a TLD now.
+.
+.Pp
+Maybe it's a little dramatic
+to label myself with the thing
+I didn't think I had.
+But who knows,
+maybe it helped.
+Because it took a few years,
+but I did become a person.
+I feel real now.
+I can change my own life
+and the world around me.
+I have causal agency.
+.
+.Pp
+I am really proud of this domain name.
+I'm proud to put it on everything I make.
+Every instance of it
+is a reminder
+that I did what I set out to do,
+and that I'm still doing it.
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An june Aq Mt june@causal.agency
+.
+.Pp
+If anything in this post resonates with you,
+I want you to know that,
+whatever you think you can't do,
+it is possible,
+and you'll get there one day.
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile
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--- a/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile
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@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ TXTS += 034-voices.txt
 TXTS += 035-addendum-2021.txt
 TXTS += 036-compassion.txt
 TXTS += 037-care.txt
+TXTS += 038-agency.txt
 
 all: colb ${TXTS}