Our built world is informed by their designs, colors, growth patterns, and by the mechanical and chemical systems that allow them to reproduce and manufacture their own food. These structures and systems are so influential that there is little, if anything, humans have created that was not first designed or produced in the course of plant growth. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. . . . This is what a marriage lasts.
Golfing creates critter homelessness on the scale of carpet bombing . . .
A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show true feelings. Ben, my son, tells me that he is hungry and he would like me to cook some liver and onions for him. He cooks, but liver and onions like mom or dad make it is beyond his skill level at this point. Olive oil into the skillet along with tamari and a touch of water, heat the mixture up, add sliced onions, allow it to simmer, add the calves liver, top it off with paprika, and my son's wish is about to be fulfilled.