Everything Fits in the Cupboard

Everything you need fits in the cupboard:

• two bowls
• one good knife
• a wool blanket
• a kettle that has seen things

Living small teaches a particular, patient kind of attention.

You notice the weather because you are inside it.
You notice the neighbours because the walls are thin.
And you notice how little of the country you had seen from a window at seventy kilometres an hour.

A van is not a sacrifice. It is a trade: square footage for horizon.

Each morning you wake somewhere new, with the same bowls, the same kettle, and a whole map still unfolding.