premature declaration

Well, as I come to the close of this project, at least as I consider it, I look back at the fleeting year of movement through ten countries and tens of homes and beds. It has been a rich and complex movement in both space and time, exhausting, stressful, joyful, exciting, seldom profitable from a monetary point, but I think, profitable for the soul. And seriously problematic for the back — which is now broken.