The stillness of a still room.
The farther away.
Near and far.
The closest you can be is to be far away
A Coca Cola with small ice cubes is like being in the Florida Everglades, only you’re soon served a plate of lasagna.
Small candy is good for long walks.
An Eggroll is great in the car.
I appreciate uncomplicated access to food. It is but one example of what may be termed “the bright side of humanity.”
One example, and only a few essential items fall into my own jurisdiction. Observe the progression of time.
Take care of what belongs to you. Loiter around the fountains.
What I own today seems so little, and really very very significant in comparison to what little I expected to have.
Picture books about the motion picture industry, simmer in the mind from Thomas Hardy books.
It is the saddest feeling, revisiting a landmark from your past, on a day when the weather seems so much the same as it had been. Like being at a park that leads to the ocean.
The cars in the lot are now all from the future, but the photograph looks just as now. The Lemon Ice truck is still there. The pay phone. Paper plates. The only difference is that my anxiety is gone.
There weren’t many hours left that day.
Like the sand in an hour glass. I was alone for many years after that time, and that was what I was worried over.
That’s why the sand was so important. Apart from having to maintain a comfortable, domestic atmosphere, you have to find something to do to use up the time you have. It amounts to only a few decades, the first ten years are the longest.
If you want to get away from people, travel to a city and become a tourist.
Indefinitely.
It isn’t very expensive to live where you choose to observe things. Hunger and lodging is an obstacle, but you can live some places in exchange for household work. So long you have integrity.
Walk to work. Wake up to work. Work as little as possible, until you find your “true vocation.”
It is only when you reach that plateau, your one “true vocation” that you’ll feel that you deserve rewards. Accoutrements. Until then, a Cameo Apple will taste like a twelve dollar dessert from a fine restaurant. Most importantly as a tourist, you should visit the things the things that were in place before your time existed.
Find the things that last the most.