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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Eric Paul Shaffer is the author of five books of poetry, a novel, and several chapbooks. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, and teaches at Honolulu Community College. Of the top ten sentient beings who have had the greatest impact on his life, more than half are not human.