Absence
-“It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence” -Mark Epstein He wakes in the dull morning, the light filtering in through the window. He stares at the ray of light that slices through his room. Putting his hand in its stream he watches the light fill the creases of his palm. ‘What does it say,’ he wonders, remembering a co-worker he once had who always insisted that everything about you is written in the palm of your hand, in exactly those little creases that sometimes disappear in the sunlight. […]