Meet the Branch Manager. First day on the job, and he's already not taking questions. But his commitment to the role is absolutely unmatched.
There is a window of time, brief, unrepeatable, when a bear cub is still soft around the edges but already looking at the world like he owns it. This piece lives in that window. That gaze is direct and unhurried, the posture completely at ease, as if the branch beneath him has always been his and always will be.
He has a way of making you stop. And in a world that rarely asks that of us, that kind of stillness is worth coming home to.