Author: clfuu

It’s easier to get your bags packed than to know where to take them or how to get there. But a lot can happen based on a suitcase and somewhere you want it to go.

Where are you waiting to take your suitcase?

There’s another train
There always is
Maybe the next one is yours
Get up and climb aboard
Another train
—Pete Morton

What do you do when you’re waiting for another train?

Somewhere, visible but not reachable, is the city of your dreams: the place where everything is new, but feels entirely like home, the place where possibilities settle in and become the every day.

What happens in your dream city?

“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

What opportunity are you waiting for?

So much of pregnancy is waiting—to confirm the pregnancy is real, to feel the baby move, to have this increasingly cumbersome being finally on the outside. Of course, once the baby is born the list of things you wait for merely shifts.

What are you waiting and hoping for in the life of a family member?