I Am One of Those People Who Linger

Dear friends — it’s been a while …

Photo taken by author in Valparaiso, Chile — Oct 2022

I am one of those people
who ponder more than they act—yet when I do, it is on the larger scale of things, like moving to a new continent, just because it feels possible.

I am one of those people
who spends more time inside looking out, investigating the poetry of life from the safe…