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Galapagos syndrome… insular adaptation
Because of that I don't answer my cell phone. I just see where it came from and delete it. I'm boing to down robo calls so they don't even show up.I don't know about the above but I do know Spam sure calls me a lot on my phone
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. ‘Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?’ they asked me the other day.
I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, ‘Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.’ And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, ‘Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.’So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
Tom Waits
Ellen Jaskol/Los Angeles Times, 1989.
I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, ‘Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.’ And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, ‘Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.’So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
Tom Waits
Ellen Jaskol/Los Angeles Times, 1989.
I lost a cell phone exactly that way.
As to knives, guess I’ve been a (non intentional) collector since 10 or so. My basket has maybe 50, but there’s a good dozen plus that are in occasional rotation. Unlike guys I read in forums that seem bent to punish, I take care of my knives, almost like children. Yeah, it’s just a tool, but in time (like 60+ years) they have attained a personal cult status. I would be sorely bummed to lose a favorite knife due to an irresponsible brain fart.
As to knives, guess I’ve been a (non intentional) collector since 10 or so. My basket has maybe 50, but there’s a good dozen plus that are in occasional rotation. Unlike guys I read in forums that seem bent to punish, I take care of my knives, almost like children. Yeah, it’s just a tool, but in time (like 60+ years) they have attained a personal cult status. I would be sorely bummed to lose a favorite knife due to an irresponsible brain fart.
I was homesteading on friends property clearing field grass with a scyth no less in the late 70’s and lost a beautiful Gerber from my dad and an early Buck knife. I was clearing a fallow field area between trees to move a tin can house a 14 x 70’ single mobile home. Newly weds expecting moving out to the sticks… anyway the loss of the Gerber was a bummer . Tall grass disguises everything. I looked for hours
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I have a Gerber to send you. A brass and rosewood “hunter” model that was popular in the 70s. It has a significant history, to me at least, which I would share in pm. If you want it I’d be happy to send, gratis. I don’t need it, and this knife’s history should continue.
