although I like the forest better, it was certainly calming to hike in a location where the wildfire danger looked very low...
Unedited photo straight from the iPhone 16 Plus.
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against my (acquired) skepticism of anything published in the last 50 years (exceptions: Kazuo Ishiguro's novels, The Selfish Gene), I picked up Nassim N. Taleb's Antifragile.
nowadays our hikes are frequent, easy, and short. We drive long distances to reach the trailhead, and typically do not make it to the main attraction (the waterfall, the pool, the giant sequoia), but we do have lots of fun.
more data--such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street--can make you miss the big truck.
so be it resolved, that I will not, in the entirety of year 2025, buy shit unless such shit has one of the following three characteristics.