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    City As Country: On Watching Lion, Displacement, & Searching For Home

    City As Country: On Watching Lion, Displacement, & Searching For Home

    I never really understood where I was, or where I was going. I was that dot, the you are here. I was that arrow on Maps. I bobbed every step I took. I was my town in Silicon Valley, bright and shining and aggressive. I was several thousand miles away from that town in Michigan. I wrote a lot there. Sometimes I’d be in Paris, or London, or Tokyo. Other times I’d be Google Earth, in several different places at once. I watched Lion (starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, & Rooney Ma
    Evolutionary Concept

    Evolutionary Concept

    Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we first assume, and that being able to derive happiness from discovery is a recipe for a beautiful life. — Hope Jahren, Lab Girl The first time I ever truly understood plants, about stems and leaves and the flow of nutrients, was when I was younger. I came to know plants just as I knew myself; I charted the growth methodically. I made close observations on how sometimes leaves would shrivel and wither, but then
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