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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Vanessa Hua is the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities and the forthcoming A River of Stars. A columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle, she has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and ZYZZYVA.
For a term paper I demanded a Louis Vuitton purse. For a take-home midterm, a Tiffany bracelet.