explanation

Meridians don’t care what they run through. If you look at a map, the same meridian runs through Turkey and Zimbabwe; two completely different countries with different people, histories, and customs are joined by an imaginary thread.

Meridians in Traditional Chinese Medicine are the conveyers of the body’s energy. Meridians run through the major organs for which they are named, but they run the length of the body. The bladder meridian traverses the eye and the back of the knee.

Meridians in and of themselves don’t tell stories. Their primary function is to locate and to connect—or to allow passage, transport.

As a writer, I connect. I assay, I try out. I follow the pulse. I invent my own meridians. I wander.

I revisit my title periodically to see what new meanings it turns up for me.