Monday

When facing a milestone, I am acutely aware of the changes in and around me.

Nature set ablaze, yellowing and fiery reds. All the earth seems richer.

In ten years, I have never seen Autumn the way I see it now: dramatic like a David Attenborough documentary, as life folds into itself and we vainly seek the comfort of our past.

Thursday?

I forgot to catch my breath. I forgot what day it is. I even forgot to write.

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While the world moved at warp speed I saw in my mind's eye another life:

I cut up my credit cards and closed my bank accounts. Deleted my emails. Cancelled my phone account. Then sold my laptop, possessions.

Burned all the pieces of paper that bind me to this way of life.

And when it was done I was nameless and unidentifiable.