On Stepping Outside the Human Narrative

Living on the Threshold

There is a library inside every human life - inherited before we can read, added to constantly, and largely composed of the same book rewritten. The human narrative recycles itself with every generation. We swim in it without noticing, looking for balance in a system that structurally cannot provide it.

My latest YouTube video is about a camping trip in the Lake District, about going outside with a notebook, and about the difference between becoming a footnote and becoming soil.

The video ends with a poem I wrote that weekend. I hope it leaves you, even briefly, at the threshold.

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