What a well written and well read piece. I'm so happy you're experimenting with the podcast. Hearing your cadence and emphasis brings a even more richness to your work.
You triggered so many memories of my youth growing up in Iowa: "smell of black earth lifted by hard rain", "CB radio themed t-shirts and paraphernalia", "small town church chapels, last remodeled and dishes bought in 1952".
I'm reading E. O. Wilson's Consilience where he talks about the theory of gene-culture coevolution. This sentence remind me of this idea:
"That our culture is best for us, and best for our homelands because our culture arose there in concert with all of the relatives of those places"
And I love the imagery of "tens of thousands of miles of pavement had turned beneath their wheels like the globe had turned beneath my jets aloft." I picture a truck spinning the globe beneath their wheels.
What a well written and well read piece. I'm so happy you're experimenting with the podcast. Hearing your cadence and emphasis brings a even more richness to your work.
You triggered so many memories of my youth growing up in Iowa: "smell of black earth lifted by hard rain", "CB radio themed t-shirts and paraphernalia", "small town church chapels, last remodeled and dishes bought in 1952".
I'm reading E. O. Wilson's Consilience where he talks about the theory of gene-culture coevolution. This sentence remind me of this idea:
"That our culture is best for us, and best for our homelands because our culture arose there in concert with all of the relatives of those places"
And I love the imagery of "tens of thousands of miles of pavement had turned beneath their wheels like the globe had turned beneath my jets aloft." I picture a truck spinning the globe beneath their wheels.