I’m a big fan. More on this later.

My sisters are amazing.

To lax again.

Quixotic is (says Merriam-Webster):

1: foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals; especially : marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action

Named after Don Quixote from the novel Don Quixote by Michel de Cervantes.

I like to think about David Douglas, the Scottish naturalist who named many trees and plants and whatnot, looking up at the tall trees we know of as Ponderosa Pine, and saying out loud to himself, “huh, I wonder what we should name that one.”

Does it ever seem to you that our cultural expectation of life is that it is meant to be a 24/7 orgasm?

Nausea, nautical, argonaut, aeronautical, cosmonaut. The Greek word “naus” means boat or ship, and the original meaning of nausia was seasickness.

Here’s a quote from Brene Brown via a conversation she was having with Tim Ferriss that is above my typewriter:

If I’m not a little bit nauseous when I’m done, I probably did not […]

MONO = one.

Monogamy, monotheism, monologue, monotone, monk, month, monarchy, monopoly.

I’m a big fan of three of these, two of them not so much, and three could go either way.

I recently fell in love with lichen- that stuff that’s usually green and not moss hanging from trees or clinging to sidewalks and rocks mistaken for old gum. It was a classic “right in front of your eyes the whole time” scenario. There are over 28,oo0 named species of lichen. Lichen…

… is ubiquitous, and yet […]

Ancient Egyptians believed in a KA. One understanding of KA was that it was your spiritual self that lived on after your death, some said that it was your internal decision maker. At least my memory of my high school psychology textbook tells me this. I still remember being very amused by one proof of […]