From The Marrow Thieves, a YA book I read for Hannah at work because it's not currently on the BOE approved list.
"Everyone goes a different way. Keep a steady but mindful pace, the same speed we keep on the trail when we move camp. An hour's walk, no more, then you find a lookout and wait." Mig reloaded his handgun and tucked it back in his waistband. With his long raincoat with the popped-up collar and the •45 in his wide leather belt, he looked like an old-timey gunslinger. "We wait for two hours, then make your way back here. If there's a problem, you all know the alarm. Chi-Boy?"
This feels like instructions for a non-digital analog existence -- walk steadily in a different direction from everyone else, find a lookout (in a non-defined way), and wait for 2 hours, make your way back.
Metaphorically, I love it! Instructions for living!
On This Day (02/04):
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