What is free?

Jan 17, 2025

Is it wild and unhinged?

Naked and howling?

Open and playful?

Is free

Accessible to all?

Unpaid?

A gift?

Does free mean

We run through meadows screaming at the top of our lungs?

We answer to no one and nothing, not even time?

Is free

Without pressure or anxiety?

Without strings or an “I owe you one”?

Does free mean

We can rest a deep rest that melts through our skin and tissues all the way down to our bones?

Is free

Excess… garbage…more stuff we don’t want or need, but that we scream and wave our arms around for when it’s blasted through a tube at a sports game?

The feeling in your lower belly when you race down the steepest drop on a roller coaster?

The thrill of winning a race, fight, game, or competition in overtime?

Is free

A calendar with a tiny sliver of white space that we fill as soon as someone asks when we can get together?

Or a calendar with nothing but white space, every single day?

God?

Magic?

Relief?

Loneliness?

Fear?

Expansion?

Possibility?

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