for. That’s what you find over and over again when you go looking: something else. An insight that surprises you. A connection that you would never have made. A new perspective.

when humans talk about meaning we’re usually referring to things that speak to our personal experiences, our aesthetic senses, and our intellects, or to our emotional inner lives and our ability to enhance our sense of satisfaction and happiness.

Life always managed to elude me. I’d only ever find its tracks, the skin it sloughed off. By the time I had determined its location, it had already gone somewhere else.