That's the work of adulthood. Sorting out the good and bad within. - Wright Thompson

I knelt down. The dirt felt cool as it ran through my fingers. Nothing hits the nose quite like freshly tilled topsoil, carrying the scent of life and death. The ground around here smells rotten after a rain, gray buckshot petrichor, grabbing tires and axles and feet. I’ve lost shoes in this mud. Delta folks call it gumbo and it feels hungry, aggressive even, as if it actively wants to pull more living things down into its stinking maw.

When somebody says something is overwritten, all overwritten really means is underreported.

"But, today, he listens to just a few songs on repeat, by singer-songwriter Jason Isbell, "Something More Than Free", and "Traveling Alone."

They're about loneliness and labor and the emptiness of being made to travel on a road not of your choosing."