Wed, 3 December

CLASSIFIED: EVENING COMPANION SOUGHT For a small person in polka dots and an old person in wheels, someone to walk between them at the speed of wonder, which is slower than you think. Must be fluent in pointing-at-things. Must not mind wind. Must understand that Disney is less a place than a direction— southeast of the fox on the hill, north of the lit window, due forward from wherever we are now. Experience with clocks preferred. Experience with ending preferred. Experience with mist that turns everything into watercolor absolutely required. No fixed hours. The shift ends when the small one stops reaching or the old one says the name that means he's found his way back. Compensation: one evening you will not get again. Apply in person. Bring wellingtons. The path is wet.