Soul Miner

I become more aware and sensitive when I am traveling for such lengthy periods… more introspective… more contemplative… the steady isolation of driving such long stretches, day after day, far away from home, gives you plenty of time to think about the littlest things…. I’ve been out for nearly 8 weeks now… and I can feel the constant weight on my heart.

Being transitory is hard work… every place I leave behind is a fresh heavy heartache… making new friends or hanging out with old friends…. there’s always an urgent and accelerated, deep soul mining because you know you don’t have much time together… then you have to abruptly cut off and leave… like ripping off a band-aid, over and over… the heart aches and begs for something longer lasting, more permanent, more stationary… only to keep getting interrupted and uprooted and shaken and pushed on… perhaps it’s just the downside or casualty of being an astronaut explorer…