“We’re very segregated and separated. . . . We’re cut off by technology. We don’t connect with our bodies . . . [or] each other.

look down at my phone and wonder if it isn’t its own kind of sensory-deprivation chamber. That tiny, glowing world of metrics cannot compare to this one, which speaks to me instead in breezes, light and shadow, and the unruly, indescribable detail of the real.