#night-walks

Walked forty minutes out of town to get away from the streetlights and it made almost no difference, which is its own kind of information.

The glow comes from everywhere at once, a dome of it, and walking out from under a dome requires a rather longer walk than forty minutes. I knew this. Reading it and standing under it are different.…

Rules for the night walk, arrived at over two years:

• No headphones. The whole point is that it is quiet and you can hear the quiet.

• A route you know, so you are not navigating.

• Phone in the pocket, on, unlooked at.

• Turn around when you want…