Savor or Savour — enjoy slowly, relish, appreciate in entirety

Savoir (french)— to know how to do something or knowing something by heart, through mental ability or through a learning process

Savior or Saviour — a redeemer, a champion, a rescuer

Saver — a preserver, one who delays the immediate for the sake of the future

The results of hard work, the reapplication of failure and discipline to forgo immediate satisfaction for the promise of growth — to learn how to perform with confidence of execution, to chase perfection in a measured way is
the practice of appreciating the entirety of the problem, the parameters of creation, transformation, the environment to flourish.

Somehow they are all the same, and yet so very different.

Memento Mori
If we are lucky, we may get 100 years of 52 weeks, or 5200 weeks of life. We’ve been conditioned to plan around retirement, around an arc of maximum productivity and fecundity, and color in the progress bar as if there we were promised tomorrow.

If I were to design the tapestry of my life, not knowing how large a canvas might be, I think I would care more about including my favorite colors, maybe even punctuating the cycles with my own unique sequence and rhythm of events. If the edge of every day-block or the bottom border…

Structure, skeletons, outlines — they give us a way to progress from one topic to the next, to cover an intended range, and to see which parts are heavily populated and which are sparse. Although endoskeletons and their variations for flight, aquatic and terrestrial locomotion with zero to many limbs are familiar to us — and have left a rich history in the fossil record, seemingly entirely by chance and the law of large numbers, the chitinous exoskeletons, fleshy collagen-based skins, and simple plasma membranes can all contain life.

In a fascinating rabbit-hole of science the field of allometry (part-scaling)…

I love myself. I cannot pour from an empty cup.

I allow my emotions to flow through me, to be human and fallible, angry and sad, imperfect.

I recognize that only my reaction is my responsibility, that thoughts do not control me.

My sensitivity is a strength.

No one can be better than me at being me. Everyone is going through something. Everyone is different. Don’t compare your chapter 1 with someone else’s chapter 13.

I will not chase a hollow why, I will not envy another’s joy, I will believe in the fulfillment and wonder of walking my path.

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Magnetic shield, ozone
diatomic flying river
microwaved sand knife

While my mind is aswirl with friend-induced churn of stagnant pools and cyclic currents, I reflect on a few moments of today’s inputs — Will Smith and various astronauts narrating the nature show One Strange Rock, youtube channels’ of a silent cinematographer chemist making sharp objects out of milk, ash, and beach ornaments.

One branch of differentiation in high school involved the selection of a tech lab upon which to focus a year-long research project — chemistry, biotech, optics, astronomy, neuroscience, energy systems, to name a few. The fields of modern…

If you’ve ever been to Sequoia National Park and seen the giant redwoods, Galadriel’s tree-city of Lothlorien should be no surprise. There is a majestic beauty to old trees — the slow incremental growth sucking matter from the air and soil, surviving fires and storms, pests and competition — let alone their towering presence and kinship with the sun. Take it to the extreme, and you have these millenia-old trees that are taller than a 20-story building.

These trees can capture 250 tons of CO2 over their lifetime, whereas a regular tree might only capture 1 ton of CO2 from…

Dried tomato slices, salted
Crepe with nutella
Beef Jerky

A selection of non-perishables passed to me over disposal
Remarkable, as I am unlikely to have purchased such snacks myself — Jerky on the odd hike or for car rations, but I had never even conceived of dried tomato chips. Sun dried tomatoes are delicious in bread or on pizza, and these rice-puff-esque bits pack a good bit of flavor.

One less-than-desirable part of growing older is the settling into our ways and preferences — most interracial marriages happen either when the partners are young, or after they are old enough…

If carbon capture and sequestration technologies have a breakthrough during our transition from burning fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, we might be able to slow the transition of our green planet into the acidic death trap that is Venus.

How, exactly, is a great question, and unfortunately nothing seems to beat the efficiency of algae. …