When travelling, it's very important to confirm and re-confirm the existence of all things. It's always very possible that there's just a screaming vacuum where your gate should be.
"We go full gatherer " and "purchasing emotional support deodorant" and "demented postmodern Scrooge" was laugh out loud, while notions of home and not-home, and the weird non-temporal qualities of "travel time" interstitial transitory moments and how they are in movement and yet not were on point (hahah) and moving. love.
Fun read. I can see you staring at those travel-sized items in your hand and contemplate how silly and, somehow, overwhelmingly important these "travel" items are as you plan to embark on your journey.
My personal favourite is how I need positive reinforcement and emotional support from my partner when I ask her to confirm that "if we forgot something, we can just go buy it, right? It's not like we are going to a 3rd world country" after I've spent the last 3 hours getting everything just right and ultimately removing items that were unnecessary from the go.
Feels you like might be a "check the airport gate exists before getting an food or an drink" as well, which, I fully relate to.
When travelling, it's very important to confirm and re-confirm the existence of all things. It's always very possible that there's just a screaming vacuum where your gate should be.
"We go full gatherer " and "purchasing emotional support deodorant" and "demented postmodern Scrooge" was laugh out loud, while notions of home and not-home, and the weird non-temporal qualities of "travel time" interstitial transitory moments and how they are in movement and yet not were on point (hahah) and moving. love.
Fun read. I can see you staring at those travel-sized items in your hand and contemplate how silly and, somehow, overwhelmingly important these "travel" items are as you plan to embark on your journey.
My personal favourite is how I need positive reinforcement and emotional support from my partner when I ask her to confirm that "if we forgot something, we can just go buy it, right? It's not like we are going to a 3rd world country" after I've spent the last 3 hours getting everything just right and ultimately removing items that were unnecessary from the go.