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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A trip to the Antarctic, a 500-mile pilgrimage, a two-hour bus ride
Chinese New Year in Philadelphia, Thanksgiving in Mexico, Passover in prison
Getting married, losing a child, singing in a choir
Claiming a heritage, becoming a citizen, landing in a foreign jail
Sharing a cab, hitching a ride, staying in a marriage
In a strip club, in an emergency room, in a refugee camp
Falling for a firefighter, staying single, trusting someone with your cat
Of failure, of the high dive, of other people
A trip with a stranger, a roadside rescue, a missing husband
An unplanned pregnancy, a twisted ankle, a case of dynamite