“I want to be outside because I want us to reassociate with the reality of life as a thriving, pulsing, risky – and yes – decaying thing. I want us to be back in touch with old stuff in old places, and newness in new places. I want us to get down to the bedrock, to our foundations, and feel into the endless cycle of beginnings and endings that punctuate a life.”

• from Weathering by Ruth Allen