walk with me down the trail
walk with me down the trail
For two years, we lived in a tent trailer while traveling the American West. To document the kind of adventure I’d never have again, I wrote our stories.
We’ve left the RV life for now, but these weekly vignettes still explore adventure’s ups and downs, our relationship with the outdoors, the wonderful disaster of parenting, and the struggle to catch lightening in the creative bottle.
Away We Stay: Bathymetry
What does knowing the depths actually tell us? Would a map of the curves of my own soul, including the shallows and the dark bits, help me navigate the surface with any more grace? Would the cartographic process bring me to an understanding?
Away We Stay: Beautiful Scavenger
Does it make her less beautiful what she consumes? Does it make me less ugly with what I don't? There is some creature that delights in anything, even the messiest left-behinds.
Away We Stay: Circles Around You
I can draw circles around you. Are they the kind that constrict or highlight? Are we drawing a halo? Is it one you want? Is it one you deserve? Am I doing it for me? Or because I am actually thrilled for whatever it is you have done?
Away We Stay: The W’s
This is not the summer of my imagination. Instead, this is the summer of writing, walking, and waiting.
Making it to the point where I can embrace these particular W’s is, perhaps, one of the hardest things I’ve done in the years that include a global pandemic.