Status Updates From Vesper Flights

Why does the boiling frog - looming dread analogy keep popping up in my life? It’s getting weird now.

“Being sworn at by woodland creatures is disquieting, but comforting too.”

“ fungi, force us to consider the limits of our understanding: not everything fits easily into our systems of classification. The world might be, it turns out, too complicated for us to know.”

“And perhaps my wonky neurology was reading too much from this experience, but sometimes, I went on to think, when you berate yourself, it might be the case that you do so needlessly. Sometimes it is not you. Sometimes the world is to blame.”

“We do not want to imagine what it would be like to have our familiar places reduced to ruins.”