how does it feel, watching me
do all the things i once
swore i would do with you?
3AM Thoughts // AKA “I See You.”
adventure
SOL: Delirium
stumbling home full of
rum and ears still
humming the music they played until
early morning, trying to
tease the sun out of hiding
long enough for you to slip
your tongue between my laughing teeth
dragging the last bit of the
night sky over my tired eyes
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Moments Better Left Forgotten.”
SOL: Ill-Advised
i’ve spent all my life
flirting with disaster and
trying not to drown
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 135.”
MIND: Vagabonding
Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. From here, the reality of vagabonding comes into sharper focus as you adjust your worldview and begin to embrace the exhilarating uncertainty that true travel promises.
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel // Rolf Potts
MIND: Pathways
The best way to travel, after all, is to feel,
to feel everything in every way,
to feel everything excessively,
because all things are, in truth, excessive
and all reality is an excess,
a violence, an extraordinarily vivid hallucination.
// Fernando Pessoa
SOL: Roses
I went back to the
city I once loved and it
didn’t feel the same.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 114.”
MIND: Wasteful
In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.”
We’d love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.
Vagabonding // Rolf Potts
MIND: Adventure
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
// Jane Austen
MIND: Limbo
Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive.
// Robert M. Pirsig
MIND: Aimless
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame // Victor Hugo
