solitude

i just finished my book, Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, which I really enjoyed reading while travelling... its three stories woven together, and every time i picked it up and read a chapter i felt like i was catching up with old friends...

anyways, this is the last paragraph, which i found has significance for me on my travels, since it is often possible to feel lonely, even when surrounded by people... i haven't feel too lonely yet, so this is a good mantra to remember:

"Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen."

this provides me with a little bit of comfort being out in the big old bad world by myself, but not by myself at all.