the map is the territory

We’ve chatted and moved with our computer, now let’s create.

While in your home directory^▣, type:
$: mkdir altar.
Like cd, mkdir does its thing quietly. You won’t see any confirmation, just a flash of the command line prompt.

However, when you type:
$: ls
you will see altar listed among your home folders:
altar Desktop Downloads Pictures...

Let’s move into the altar:
$: cd altar

Then confirm we are there:
$: pwd
We should see something like:
/Users/You/altar

Let’s list everything here:
$: ls
This gives...nothing. We’ve manifested ourselves an empty space.

Next, we’ll fill it with blessings and spells.

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