Tom,
This is important, as much as you are proof we need to reintroduce stocks, I have to step back and appreciate your freedom and independence.
You happen to have aligned your aim with the transcultural master metaphor of language: “Life as a Journey”!
This picture is instantly iconic for that complex thought.
Remember that even when in bed with a lover, there is a moment, before sleep when we are starkly alone. Here the figure is in solitude, walking on her path with perfect framing and in her own thoughts as there is nothing else in the wet street to engage her.
The staccato points of light and the actual lines reducing to the horizon to “nothingness”
make the picture!
Asher