4/2/2025

8:02am

It's a trip that nature is a novelty to us now. Like how I was surprised when I saw a whole family of deer up in Sierra Madre. How in our quests for comfort and control we've eradicated species, interactions with the natural world. And how there is this visceral longing in my soul to have these magical experiences; to hear birds singing to each other, or to watch how bees communicate with each other by dancing, or study how ants share chemicals to find food.

4/1/2025

10:50am

An good essay is volley between questions and answers. The overarching piece, the subsections, the individual paragraphs all partake in this play. While writing, I've begun to ask myself, "what is the job of this paragraph? What question is it trying to answer?" Looking at piece as a hierarchy of questions trying to answer the main thesis.