Writing in the Stream

I’ve been learning how to program using Khan Academy. The message is simple: “You can learn anything.”

Spin-off of “Project: Paint splatter”

Made using: Khan Academy Computer Science.

Every once in a while

when you pull out

headphones from your ears

look past your screen

you see the person you love

playing in a nearby field with a thousand smiling planets

all in flower.

Even Kepler never dreamed of this.

Today, I saw a flailing angel stop his decent

despite the phantom pain where his wings used to be

with his hand rescue an earthworm from the asphalt

toss it on fresh dirt. He’ll be okay.

Happy Earthday!

Here are some of the amazing animals and wild places I’m grateful to have experienced and I’m grateful are out there.

It’s important to take a close look at what we’re doing or not doing, and how biodiversity enables us to lead very rich, wonderful lives.

I would put a picture of my friends and family here too if they were okay with that, since human beings are animals too.

And music is cross-species. Whales and indri indri and crickets sing. So do human beings. They striate too, and pluck at strings.