I’ve logged more experience than most with simplicity and the complexity you discover inside simplicity, minimalism and asocial behavior, endurance and landscape.
Here is the truth: I think some deep wisdom inside me (a) sensed the stress, (b) was terrified for me, and (c) gave me something new and hard to focus on in order to prevent me from lapsing into a despair coma — and also to keep me from having a jelly jar of wine in my hand.
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There’s a woman kissing a cowboy across the street. His eight-year-old son watches from the bus stop bench. She’s really planting one on him, his Stetson in danger. It must have been some weekend. Seeing no room in that embrace for himself, the boy measures his future, legs straight out in front of him. Both hands hold on to a suitcase handle, thin arms ready to prove themselves.
Lee McCarthy