The Unclimbable

I’ve always felt at home on the road, which is to say, I don’t quite feel at home anywhere. When someone asks me, “Where are you from?” I say I live in New York, because that’s where I pay rent right now. If I’m in New York, I say I’m from Kentucky, because that’s where my family lives. If I’m in Kentucky, I say that I was born in Chicago, or that I spent my childhood riding horses in Michigan. But it was at the foot of a volcano in Ecuador that I first learned about silence, and longed for