Status Updates From Greenwood

‘—no fewer than 16—great-grandparents, each with their own separate—traits & stories—& yet we idiotically focus on the single surname that survives. Are not the other 15 equally important? & what is her son really—we expect our children to be the ones to halt deforestation & species extinction—to rescue our planet tomorrow, when we are the ones overseeing its destruction today? & same goes for saving the ecosystem.’

‘(He) hired men to cut—paid them like rats to do it. The old saying goes that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. But—the opposite is more likely true. An apple is nothing but a seed’s escape vehicle, just one of the ingenious ways they hitch rides—in the bellies of animals, or—the wind—far away—She’s always believed that most people’s lives are lived as one great refutation of the ones that came before them.’