Autumn's Notes
for the Wild Quiet Beyond Life's Rocky Roads

Somewhere along the way, quiet stopped feeling like rest and started feeling like a problem to solve.

We're not necessarily doing more than people before us did. We're just doing so much of it with an audience, a comparison point, and a stream of interruptions running alongside us.

There is a world happening around us that we might miss when we're constantly being asked to look somewhere else.

There's a kind of tired that has nothing to do with sleep. It's the tired that comes from trying to keep up with everyone who has an opinion about your body.

Sometimes we don't choose a life so much as we slowly step into one. We follow expectations. We do what makes sense. We become good at carrying things. But there is always a moment when we can begin asking a different question: What would I choose if I was listening to myself?