en route – a fairytale

She was born in a cave. It was buried deep inside a forest, she discovered the day she left. The trees reached way into the sky, standing tightly side by side. Every now and then she could catch a glimpse of light when she turned her face upward. Mostly she stumbled along the forest ground [...]

Desire

Rebecca Solnit writes:
“We treat desire as a problem to be solved, adress what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between [...]