I walk the wooded path behind my home and create little

towers at this curve and then the next. I think what my heart

is leaning into, the real purpose of creating these stacks of

stones, is to remind me of my true journey, my real walk in

this world, which has little to do with tangles of modern

communication, wormholes of busy, and our culture's call to

do more and more... So each day I build another cairn to

remind myself of a truer path, allowing my eyes to swing from

side to side, looking for signs.

~ Carrie Newcomer in A PERMEABLE LIFE: POEMS & ESSAYS
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