{"id":1766,"date":"2024-03-16T23:37:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T23:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/?page_id=1766"},"modified":"2024-03-16T23:38:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T23:38:25","slug":"fragments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/fragments\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For bits that are a few sentences in length<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/fragments\/#Thought_as_travel_over_a_landscape\" >Thought as travel over a landscape<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/fragments\/#Fallen_Leaves\" >Fallen Leaves<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/fragments\/#Winter\" >Winter<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/fragments\/#Water_in_Baja\" >Water in Baja<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/fragments\/#Last_Years_Leaves_in_the_Spring\" >Last Year&#8217;s Leaves in the Spring<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/fragments\/#Blasphemy\" >Blasphemy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/fragments\/#Refugia\" >Refugia<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Thought_as_travel_over_a_landscape\"><\/span>Thought as travel over a landscape<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traversing a landscape on foot or in a car\u2026 well-worn paths, convenient paths, scenic paths. <br>&#8230; Analogy to thoughts, and how it can be easy to retrace one\u2019s steps\u2026 &nbsp;<br>&#8230; Creative thinking as taking different paths<br>&#8230; who has been this way before\u2026 have they left notes or signs?<br>&#8230; thoughts moving swiftly or slowly like streams\u2026 thoughts that are like wary animals<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">driving, flow default networks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sauntering (thoreau; muir; St &lt;someone&gt;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fallen_Leaves\"><\/span>Fallen Leaves<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trees that hold on to their leaves after they are dead (marcescent)\u2026.<br>Curled brown leaves on the forest floor whose ribs arch like the beams(???) of cathedrals<br>birds scavenging seeds from bushes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Husks of brown leaves float on the water amid the reflections of buds<br>In the spring the brown remnants of leaves shatter to dust, <br>Pressed into the mud, the brown leaves are flattened and look like proto-fossils<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Winter\"><\/span>Winter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ice ridges catching like<br>the fabrics of crystals\u2026 heat of fusion<br>catastrophic failure of ice shelf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Water_in_Baja\"><\/span>Water in Baja<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The water trickles out of the fountain, tumbling over stone in beads and blobs, slow enough that you hear the sound of each fat tear of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Last_Years_Leaves_in_the_Spring\"><\/span>Last Year&#8217;s Leaves in the Spring<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The marcescent trees, mostly oaks, have released their hoards of last-year\u2019s leaf-husks. Some, blown onto the remnants of vernal pools, are pressed into the spring mud, a palimpsest ready for spring. Elsewhere, the leaves turn to fragments and dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Blasphemy\"><\/span>Blasphemy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blasphemy. That\u2019s what it struck me as. Which is odd, because I am not religious. I am not even a theist. But, whatever the term, it struck me as disturbingly and deeply wrong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it\u2019s not something that most people would glance twice at.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Refugia\"><\/span>Refugia<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One is a somewhat upscale restaurant in a western suburb of Phoenix called Vogue. One is the Hilton hotel in the Mexico City airport \u2013 unusually, for a hotel, it is within the security cordon. Another is a generic chain restaurant in downtown Chicago: it might be called California Kitchen. One is the Westin hotel in DTW \u2013 that\u2019s the Detroit metropolitan airport, for all you non-frequent fliers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"># # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n<p>Views: 23<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For bits that are a few sentences in length Thought as travel over a landscape Traversing a landscape on foot or in a car\u2026 well-worn paths, convenient paths, scenic paths. &#8230; Analogy to thoughts, and how it can be easy to retrace one\u2019s steps\u2026 &nbsp;&#8230; Creative thinking as taking different paths&#8230; who has been this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/fragments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fragments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1766","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1766\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}