04/01/2026
i’ve been thinking lately about how cars used to transport us between various places and states of being outside. now so many use the outdoors to pass through on the way to places inside.
and i can’t tell if it’s convenience or forgetting, but it gives me a quiet kind of ache.
being outside, "out there," the outdoors.
we move through it and by it, instead of toward it. a beautiful sky of color through our windshield, a breeze felt on your way from where you parked to where you're headed into. grass is mowed with not enough bare feet in it. the porch light is on but no friends gather underneath it. nature paths & hiking trails maintained but we wear headphones when we walk them.
i keep coming back to this thought. how we once used cars to carry us out into the world, and now we use the world to carry us between rooms.
I guess what i'm saying is maybe we should spend more time under the sky and porch lights. and in grassy places where animals live and crickets chirp. letting the outside be somewhere we treat as a destination, the whole activity, the whole point.
xoxo
-morgan
