What You’ll Need

  • Somewhere to go—outside is best, but not required

  • Your phone, face-down, used for one thing only after you’ve found something

  • No agenda after that

What To Do

Find something that’s been around longer than you.

A tree. A building. A trail. A bridge. A lake or river that was there before the things around it. Maybe something in your town that was there long before you were.

Stop and spend some time with it.

Then, look up one thing: how long has it been there?

What was happening when it started? What has it outlasted?

And then put the phone back down.

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