I’m writing this from a cave. There is wifi in the cave. I am sitting on a pink Hannah Montana bedspread. All of the beds are pink. This is a dorm in a cave. That’s Capadocia tourism for you.
The view out the little front lounge of this “pensian” is a landscape of huge limestone [...]
This is San Francisco International Airport and I can’t understand a single word the people ahead of me are saying. It’s very reassuring. I’m tired of living in a monoculture. White Americans end up all looking the same. Compared to everyone else.
I think the ones in front of me are speaking Dutch. They’re tall and [...]
Every writer wonders what they’re writing about. The only way I’ve ever found to know is to look back a little at what’s come out of my keyboard and see if there’s a theme. So I did this, and I think I’ve been writing about wonder. This is a haiku from Dec 12th
I just edited the
wikipedia page for
curiosity
I did too. Curiosity fascinates me. The wikipedia entry noted that it is “the fuel that drives science”, but I felt that was unfair. As if science is the only thing we want to know! I had to add that curiosity is the thing that makes us want to know anything at all; perhaps it’s an external form of creativity. In the past few months I’ve been writing about it a lot.
