On Going Indoors

Picture, if you will, a world in which no one went outside. When I refer to outside or outdoors, the inference is not the mere act of stepping out the door, but moving, doing, and existing outside. A meaning in which outdoors becomes a part of life; it is where we are, not just something we must survive to get to the nearest enclosure--shop, boutique, café, or office. Outdoors, in the sense of people walking, lingering, living, and talking, away from the nice neat space of enclosed walls and a ceiling. Now in our world this meaning is alien. All life, as much as conveniently…