By staying out of the conversation just now I began hearing an
overwhelming amount of testimony to experience of cultural products as opposed
to discussing firsthand experiences in nature. Recollections spanning from
books, movies, music and politics to gossip columns, biographies and news
flashes about authors, actors, musicians and politicians leave direct
experience of nature outside the opaque, isolating wall of vicarious references to settings in dramas
and documentaries. I feel like I am listening to a classroom of students still turning in book reports years after their last class on the momentum of having learned to be ready with the answers.
I look up at the towering pecan shading us all and wonder, “What
in the hell are they talking about?”
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