Welcome to This Spot on Earth. This is a home for a selection of my essays on nature, healing, and family. Other topics include AI, the dignity of loving one’s work, and the weight of something colorless.
I reflect at times on campaigning and then serving my first year in the Vermont House, and some of the experiences that got me there, like visiting George Floyd Square and before that, re-facing a Civil War monument with my son.
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The grim reaper doesn’t bluff, and that’s okay
I felt that 44 would either be the most amazing year, or horrible. Horrible because of my impending doom.
Congrats Rick Holcomb!
Rocks from space hit Earth all the time, all over. But to find one, there are better places to look. In the Mojave Desert, a dark meteorite can land and sit around to be discovered, without vegetation to grow over it. Space rocks can accumulate for decades on Antarctic ice sheets that hardly ever see snow.