Status Updates From A Field Guide to Getting Lost

suburbanization is like a tranquilizer if an urban development could be a drug, abandon page 107

the blue of distance

“Worry is a way to pretend you have knowledge or control over what you don’t—and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.”

“Exceptional beauty and charm are among the gifts given by the sinister fairy at the christening. They give the bearer considerable sway over others, which can keep them so busy being a sort of siren on the rocks while others shipwreck that they forget themselves and need to figure out where they are going.”

This is very beautifully written and the first 2 or 3 essays are so good but I'm at the point now where I'm reading a full 20 page think-piece n struggling to describe what it was saying. Not for being convoluted or complex, just for a complete lack of aim or direction. I guess this book is about getting lost so that's sort of on theme but it's losing its charm