Via Iter Verba- Entry #1

Via Iter Verba- Entry #1: First day of Van Life

I only exited my apartment this morning. Returned the keys – with a question burning on the tip of a parched tongue. I need to ask. Ask the attendant for what happens now. Ask the attendant for advice, for help. Yet, I walk away, because there was nothing left.

Today, I have a full class schedule. Tomorrow? A full 8 hours of work.

What do most do after a shift? Relax. The word is soon to be foreign.

My vehicle is full, I need to binge more minimalism videos for advice. Right now, there is no lying down, no “relaxation”.

I enter a Starbucks, drain class assignments like the coffee I would love to have (started a caffeine fast this month), and my inner dialogue sparks. Vague abstractions. Skewered interpretations play with the brain, playing with the air surrounding me. Because, there is an essence here.

It is, the feeling of waiting at school for your parents. While your mom takes an extra shift.

It is, a whisper, being thrashed about a windstorm.

The faintness of it says, “You might get in trouble for this”. But you can taste an air of spice, a cinnamon sugar on the end of its words: adventure.

A wink of anxiety, a deep understanding of a shift, and a fear that the ground has fallen out from you.

But within the snowstorm, the sun peaks at you. Bright and brilliant beams alter images in a dark blue room. A Hope. Inevitable adventure is what sneaks behind the anxiety. Immense freedom rides on the edges of brittle objects that float above, and into, a tornado. It all lives, the positive effects, below a clear sheet of ice, waiting to be cracked open, unlocked.

Necessities are arriving in the mail. I have always wanted to spend time…roaming. Seeking. Living off land. Living with people. The constant adventure.

Currently, this adventure has a weekday routine. Nine-hour shifts transform to Five-hour blocks of lectures. The hope is that there is personal growth here too. To allow a budding of a new seed, that will grow the rest of my life, and if I am lucky, will continue for future offspring, in years to come.

Let us see where this adventure takes us. Day 1, 10/1/2024

Thank you for reading,

Erickson