“We both know there's no returning to the beginning, no knowing who you've always been, no going home again. But we also know that there's no staying where you are: that the moment that your body sutures together into a whole and steady place you know, something will give way and you'll be changed to mere parts again.” HomeBodyInjurySurgeryBodiesSense Of PlaceHomingPlacemaking Book:Places I've Taken My Body: Essays Source: Places I've Taken My Body: Essays
“To work your way forward when you are permanently lost means, yes, to be exhausted and adrift, a stranger in a strange land. But... it also means living in a state of endless discovery. The world unfurls itself anew each day with dawn's first cold breath on the city. You re-encounter what you are: lonely likely a body with a gift for burning.” WritingHomeIdentityPlaceHomingPlacemaking Book:Places I've Taken My Body: Essays Source: Places I've Taken My Body: Essays
“Constant motion camouflages the extent to which I'm alien even to myself.” HomeBodyTravelPlaceBodiesHomingPlacemaking Book:Places I've Taken My Body: Essays Source: Places I've Taken My Body: Essays