Just fartin' around

I wonder if sometimes I don't intentionally make life harder for myself.  For example, why would I start somethin' lame when I already have lots of other lame things to do?  What's the point? 

Here's the point:

Sometimes it's good to share some important wisdom nuggets that you have accumulated, usually from old people.

Here's a nugget:

"...this much is crystal clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy.  The whole world is so greedy for more bathtubs that it had lost the stability necessary to build them, or even to turn off the tap.  Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.

"Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined in terms of things natural, wild, and free."

- Aldo Leopold
  Madison, Wisconsin
 4 March 1948

                                American Woodcock (Scolopax minor)

                                The Barn, looking towards the oak.                               

                                Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)

It would be nice to go back here for a little bit.