When talk of the coming paradise and the prospect of having a limitless amount of time to spend learning new things arises, a point about plants is often mentioned, namely that ‘we’ll be able to learn the names of all of the different kinds of trees there are.’ This comment is often followed by an…
Month: July 2020
The Taught Ones
We stopped into the Central Highlands shopping Marketplace so that I could buy an ear bud/headset for a job I was supposed to start once we returned to Monto. (This would end up being one of two jobs I was hired for and immediately quit after the first class, despite being a bit hard up…
A Glacial Epiphany
Years ago while attending a Trek convention with some friends, I was listening to one of the series actors talk about a moment in his life when he was sitting in a bathtub and watching the water swirl away down the drain. He realized that essentially this was what was happening with his career and…
Lingering Legacies
The day before leaving for the trip North I had found a snail while clipping the edges of the lawn. I had brought it inside to see if I could get a nice time lapse video, but it wasn’t until night fell that the little guy finally came out of his shell and I was…