MEGATHANKS

Thanks Hasnan for teaching me about time, slow speeds, deep age. The difference between doing and being, and the love that is calling your friends out. Thanks Gabs for keeping the pace quick and full of play. Thanks Shubs for showing me it is possible to be far out and still at rest within the system, for editing, and for taking care of me in real and simple ways. Thanks Pieter-Jan for showing me how to be present with kindness and mischief for all parts of the journey, and for teaching me to fish. Thanks Pia for guidance early on, and for taking me hunting, to the glaciers, and to meet witches. Thanks Lucy for seeing me through. Thank you Hanan, Paola and Shubi for editing, often last minute. Thank you to the entire moving company for showing me how being there for each other can make hard things fun. Thanks Saara for your powerful advice and listening. Thanks to my friendfamily for always having my back (Clea, Eric, Mia, Dana, Jaqueline, Tyler, Dan), my eminent witchwizards for all the ways you make me feel real (Alex, Jennifer, Amber, Dallin, Wednesday, Latifa, Kali, Heather, Mark, Stefan, Morgan),  and for new solid friends for all the ways you’ve been there for me (Vishnu, Essi, Asta, Rebecca, Sheung, Parsa, Kuba, Jessie). Thanks to my animal friends for your softness and wildness and tameness and trust and messages, and for letting me sometimes look under your soft paws. Thanks Dana and Benny for being my best. You are powerful forces who constantly remind me of the real deal richness that is earned vulnerability. Thanks for cracking me open and backing me up, and for letting me in also. And thank you to my biological family for always having a place for me to sleep and stay, and showing me the strange unbounded territory that can be love, its limits always able to be out-thought, who draw their circles widely.

Thanks to everyone who shows me that. That really is the main thing.