But if we’re seeking a liminal state, the significance of getting from here to there, then we’re in a mode of discovery, not driving a train on a single set of tracks.*
Seth Godin
To young children, of course, nature is full of doors – is nothing bt doors really – and they swing open at every step.**
Robert Macfarlane
Fossicking is rummaging, searching, prospecting.
The dreamwhispering I get up to
is about foraging through the hidden and/or
unexplored parts of our lives,
Delving beneath the surface of the obvious and familiar
to the unnoticed or undervalued,
Out of which emerges a richer story.
By the time we come to the end of a
journey of conversations, there’s
an agglomeration of thoughts, feelings, expressions, and
possibilities to be sifted through;
Every one can lead to somehere, to
something, to
someone –
Smorgasboardian possibilities.
*Seth Godin’s The Song of Significance;
**Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks.
THIN|SILENCE 
Fossicking! Yay! I feel like I’m concluding ten straight months of fossicking, during this sabbatical which is in the process of wrapping up. Great word for it.
And here at London Heathrow, we met a fellow who is studying cybersecurity in Edinburgh— he is flying to Brazil to bring the rest of his family (two daughters) to Edinburgh now.
Fascinating fellow. We had a not-long-enough long talk about fitness after 40, the nature of security in a radically digitally distributed world, coping with long flights, etc. I failed to ask him where in Edinburgh he lived, sorry… I figured you’d be curious!
Grace and wisdom to you in all your spiritual fossicking! (and hi to your lovely wife from us!)
—Nic
Thank you for this message, Nic – apologies that it has taken me a while to reply. I hope that I will have more time for this now that I’m going to be “retired” which is to say, more time to be playful.
The person studying in Edinburgh is a fun part of this, the connectedness we discover all around us.
When do we see the book?