There is a new documentary out on Netflix at the moment called The Minimalists : Less Is Now. In a lot of ways, it’s unremarkable; A classic New Years documentary that features ominous, ambient music, lots of high-definition B-Roll of swarming cities and Amazon deliveries and narrative thru lines about enlightened guys who realised that having too much stuff was simply stressing them out.

These are a collection of notes, observations and thoughts I’ve made while walking/running the same route throughout most of the lockdown. They are edited and at times, rephrased, for ease. Initially, this was an experiment for a University assignment, but I kept on writing after it was submitted because what else do you do when you’re stuck with your thoughts for this long? Write a poem?