Words&Dirt

“‘Humans are in love with the idea of persisting,’ he said.  ‘We fetishize it, really.  Our retirement funds, our genealogies.  Our so-called ideas for the ages.’ ‘I really hate this.  What you’re saying.  Just so you know.’ ‘Sorry.  I am a doctor of natural systems.  And this looks terminal to me.’ In the branches over […]

I’ve made some notable progress since my last journal, but the most important recent development has nothing to do with my personal efforts: the rain has finally returned to Humboldt.  In two weeks, we’ve had more rain here at the house than in the entire time since I began keeping a rain log in November […]