Don't be afraid to be scared.

Knot sure

    That's what happens when you go outside. When you come back in, your heart is left behind. It's not an act of protest. It's just your heart is made under the sky, in the water and of the earth.

    Imagine we lived outside all the time. The earth might remember us like an old familiar face. Might draw us in. Like a picture it hadn't finished sketching.

    But it's not about finishing, it's about keeping going. Pause and rest when you need to - your body, on the far side of its orbit, will tell you when it's tired. Now keep going. Breathing is its own foot steps. Beating a path to your heart. And then away again.

    Have I ever told you to look at me when I'm talking? Don't worry about that. I've got another idea. How about you look at me with your mind's eye when I'm not there. A way of holding hands even when we walk on opposite sides of a tree.

    Imagine the tree swayed when we did that. My daughter said that trees make the wind. What else could we apply that logic to? Where effects become causes. Journeys become pauses. And so on.

    If the moisture evaporating from the clothes line made its own special coloured cloud, how would that be? When the tree swayed, the wind blew and the clothes cloud moved - would we miss it? Ah, there goes my cloud.

    Some parallel lines meet. When they're really lonely. Or feeling naughty. Making messy knots. Is that what we are? How are you, my friend? I'm parallel, thanks, and you? Hmm, knot sure.

how we miss things

it's funny where
the eye travels

and where it doesn't

why do we 

miss things 

right in front

of us?

I hit a kangaroo

on my bike

the collision

hides from me

what else 

will I fail 

to see? 

in my head

my heart

stand beside me

hold my hand

so I won't 

miss you

stillness is a long run

when you run

be still

keep going

until

you don't arrive 

haven't yet left

something has left you 

feeling bereft

only the rhythm

remains

footsteps behind mean

you're making gains

on abandoning

the search for improvement

who knows how to run

without movement?