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We love to use the word, but we really don’t know what wild actually means – this is my most palpable takeaway from these two days. As soon as we leave these human-installed facilities behind – or rather by just putting some distance between them and us (we could hear the highway from afar) – we are ridiculously vulnerable.
The minute we stopped walking I got cold. Really cold. An immediate and indifferent cold you can’t experience in the city and that I have not been able to shake off completely up until today. She quickly finds her way through the multiple layers of clothing, your extra socks; seats herself in the hollows of your knees and strokes your skin on all the body parts with an icy touch. Unforgiving, but without any evil intentions she says: “Come into my arms and let us see what you’re made of.” At first you intend to fight, to shake her off, to avoid the unpleasant. But after a while you’ll find that what you really need to do is hug her back. And when she finally makes herself at home in your bones, smile brightly into her face.
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