I’ve logged more experience than most with simplicity and the complexity you discover inside simplicity, minimalism and asocial behavior, endurance and landscape.
Here is the truth: I think some deep wisdom inside me (a) sensed the stress, (b) was terrified for me, and (c) gave me something new and hard to focus on in order to prevent me from lapsing into a despair coma — and also to keep me from having a jelly jar of wine in my hand.
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Howard Nelson’s latest book, That Was Really Something, includes poems about James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, and the Ronettes. He lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York.