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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When the truth came to me, slipped into my house in its white robes, its face open as my face, its heart obvious and trusting, I stood calmly in the front hall and did not move to bar the door. When the truth laid its cool hand on my sleeve and said, Come with me, it’s time, I went quietly. She led me into the past, through the back yards I once knew, bedrooms and kitchens; we sat in my father’s car and talked. I was shivering in my thin skin and crying readily by this time: terrified, furious. She offered her own consolation — no false pats on the hand and no shoulder to lean on, I had to learn to stand upright or bend on my own. In her clear voice the truth offered all she has to give us: Herself, and the stern comfort of belonging to this world.
Molly Fisk