The long way home

This is a demonstration essay about an imagined journey. It is not a biographical account.

There is a path that arrives sooner, and another that follows the edge of the water. In this imagined journey, we take the second one.

The extra distance changes very little on a map. On foot, it changes the whole afternoon.

What a detour gives back

1. A different angle on a familiar place.
2. A chance to hear a sound before seeing its source.
3. Time for a thought to finish itself.

The point is not to make every journey longer. It is to remember that arriving is only one part of going somewhere.

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