Even with the GPS, I missed my exit to the George Washington Bridge. Missed the sign.The fix was easy enough. I got off at the next exit, got back on the highway and approached from a different direction.The delay meant we sat for about 20 minutes while a draw bridge was raised and lowered. By the time we passed over the bridge, any sign of the vessel had vanished. The water below seemed undisturbed.
And now that I sit on the couch in my AirBnB in Cambridge, thinking about the steady flow of green highway signs that organize drivers according to direction, I find myself wondering if our nervous systems are a little like this, impulses traveling along a network of neurons like vehicles on the tangled highways around New York City.
I'm glad to have arrived. We'll be here for a few days and then off to explore someplace else before heading off again.
Fall-ing in Love : 40 Days of Noticing is a daily writing practice that opens a landscape of discovery into my own human experience.
Katherine Cartwright has been blogging since 2012, and each year brings new wonders. She asks big questions of the small things in life.
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