In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
Friendly Reminder that
“the world” is not an entity and it is never unified in a singular way “against” you as an individual. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is not a friend.
Thoughts for a Thursday from An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
It is, thus, discontinuities, the great discontinuities in life, that we seek to bridge, or reconcile, or integrate, by recollection, and, beyond this, by myth and art.
Invest in things that have the capacity for growth.
Thoughts for a Thursday from Saving Tarboo Creek
In the history of life, no gene has ever been expressed in the absence of environmental influences. These environmental influences, in turn, come in two distinct but interacting types: a genetic environment created by the unique combination of fifty thousand