Map/Territory

Today’s draft is also inspired by The Art of Is. In the book, the author quotes Alfred Korzybski who said: “The map is not the territory.” That got me thinking about paper maps, and how much I love them, how they got me through summers abroad and a year in California. And thus, today’s draft was born.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThe map is not the road.The memory is not the experience.And yet, these three things are equally real:the paper map of London, where I traced the path with my finger,the memory of the sound of my footsteps on the path to Regent's Park,the path itself.My own body is the proof of this -- the solid ever-changing,the present disappearing