the tale, the detail

It might seem odd, to build a thing of beauty and then burn it or tear it down ten days later, but I have always thought of impermanence as an essential characteristic of precious things. It is not a feature we would choose if given the chance, it is forced on us, but nevertheless, I feel that without it we would appreciate less. Knowing you will lose something makes you really look at it. I know I took everything in, savoured every instant, every vision, every moment and every feeling, in hopes of etching them in my memory, all the while knowing it would eventually fade. And learning to be okay with it.

"Home isn’t a place you have. It’s a place you make. It’s good to make a home, and then travel away from it, and then come back to it. So my advice to all you travelers, because you are all travelers, on this planet that is itself traveling through space, is: create a home, and then travel away from it so you can change and return, change and return. That’s what the waves do, and that’s what we have to do, because all life moves in cycles, and so should we."