There once was a man who became unstuck in the world- he realized that he was not his car, he realized that he was not his job, he was not his phone, his desk or his shoes. Like a boat cut from its anchor, he’d begin to drift….He took the wind for a map, he took the sky for a clock, and he set off with no destination. He was never lost.

Instead of hooks or a net, he threw himself into the sea. He was never thirsty.

..with a Poloroid camera he made pictures of all the people he met, and then he gave all the pictures away. He would never forget their faces. Each person he met became a little less stuck themselves. He traveled only with himself and he was never alone.

…and he traveled around like a leaf in the wind until he reached the place where he started out. His car, his job, his phone, his shoes-everything was right where he left it. Nothing had changed, and yet he felt excited to have arrived here- as if this were the place he’d been going all along.

—Castles in the Sky

“I miss looking at your face, it’s automatic. I can see it as I stare but it’s less dramatic. I can see you catch my gaze & I turn away, as if I’m not about it. I wish we were face to face right now but I can’t have that. So I look into other’s eyes & I try to doubt it-doubt you ever cared because it helps me do without it. Doubt you ever really tried so I can pretend it wasn’t meant to be, like we’d never found that.”