Resist chronology
It will always impose itself.
Break the flow of time once it begins.
Better yet, resist it from the start.*
Verlyn Klinkenborg

To migrate away from the named places (territories whose topography was continuous with memory and community) to the coasts (unmapped islands, the anonymous forests) was to reach land that did not bear the marks of occupation. It was to act out a movement from history to eternity.**
Robert Macfarlane

To be peregrini, wanderers, is a matter of heart
and soul;
Otherwise we would have to cast our flimsy craft
upon the chopping waters, and wait to discover where
winds and tides have taken us.

There are timeless places to explore all around us,
In the eternities of reading, or
spending time with a fascinating other, or
working on some art or artisanship, or
wandering through sagely nature … .

*Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Several short sentences about writing;
**Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places.