Do you ever find yourself wandering about the internets longing for more information about awesome trees? Do you spend embarrassing amounts of time searching Google Images and Flickr for unique nature photography? Well gosh do I have the blog for you!

http://ten-thousand-trees.blogspot.com/

This is also useful, although it makes no promises about identifying trees from quite a long way away.

http://www.oplin.org/tree/

The necessity of regular, scheduled exercise, such as you might try to practice at The Gym, is the clearest evidence that the modern lifestyle is totally messed up and unsustainable. We live our lives in such a way that without concerted, health-oriented efforts, we would all become sick and die. Sure it takes several decades but still. The further removed our mode of “making a living” is from making what we need to live the more this is true. OK, I’m way over-simplifying here, which leads me to corporations, like most subjects do. It’s their fault.

Yes, all of it.

Weekend anniversary trip! Yay!

I am so tired of only living at night.

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The homeless women I see every day have no place of their own, no time to their selves, and so it is not uncommon for some to become totally undone once they close the shower curtain and turn on the water. For them, the shower is a place of soul-bearing honesty and comfort in a world of harsh public vulnerability. A person who seemed lucid and strong a minute before can easily dissolve into raw emotion. I hear them talk to themselves, laugh, cackle, cry and sob, one woman howls rather heatedly, another moans in what sounds like pure agony. But regardless of their state prior to showering, and the weirdness projected during, their spirit is always noticeably higher afterwards. The dirt-and-sorrows-of-the-world analogy is quite obvious, but it really is wonderful to witness.

I want to be a cowboy.

I’m afraid of becoming a desperado.

Also, the miscellany section has been busy.