Crossing

MAY 1 Crossed the Turkish border from Greece while reading " The Appointment " by Herta Mueller, Romanian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. " It's easier if you're the one going out, if you're the one taking your fear away and leaving your fortune at home, and if there's someone waiting for you to come back. Sitting at home waiting, stretches time to the brink and tightens fear to the point of snapping.