at arm's length

most people keep the world at arm’s length

comfortable

disconnected

it’s like they are holding a snow globe in their hands

mine contains a landscape that has been evolving for the past four years. i shake it from time to time and it churns things up, but they always settle to the bottom. 

it is not a scene that i wanted to become familiar with, but now i have no choice.

while many of you are busy being immersed in your next distraction, i am slowly conceding to that fact that this is the way it will be.

stones

I’ve found a decent balance between giving and taking. Lately, I feel like it’s not so much that I am giving more to others BUT they are taking more from me.

Working in an industry where you provide a service can be draining at times. I nod and smile as they tell me about their struggles, reminding myself that what I have experienced in my life is vastly different than the experiences of the people I encounter on a daily basis. 

"Most people are on the world, not in it- have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them- undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate." - John Muir