The Next Chapter
I’ve been thinking today about all the work that’s waiting for me at home, but I just can’t hold myself back from the one thing on earth that really matters to me. I can’t hold myself back from you. Holding myself back from coming to see you would be holding myself back from life itself. I wouldn’t know how to do it.
I left the house when the sun was already so high that I was able to make out the seam of the heavens and the earth, the trees in my orchard and the shining skin of the ponds, beneath which the fish live. It’s five kilometres from my house to your shop. Not far. I paused a while to look at the water. There was a little hill in front of me. Do you recall that little hill? You don’t? Well, never mind. I walked around the ponds. I keep repeating myself? Well, h
