I Am Pilgrim

and as spring became summer I started to believe anything was possible.

To turn your back on everything you know is hard, among the most difficult things you’ll ever do, but I kept telling myself one thing.
If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.

The point is: if you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.

time hasn’t dimmed my memory of that photo. It has only made it sharper – it lies in wait for me just before I go to sleep and, try as I might, I’ve never been able to get it out of my head.

I didn’t realize how powerful ordinary things can be,