Aristotle

Aristotle also loved maps.

He was a collector of scrolls and constitutions as well.

I think I'll stick to maps.

Overlap

Heard the same thing said about two very different people today. One came from a professor talking about Plato and the other was an interview with a writer for the Cobert Report.

"It can be difficult to know sometimes where the person ends and where the character begins. It's difficult to know if (Plato or Stephen Colbert) is really thinking the same thing as (Plato speaking as Socrates or the character Stephen Colbert plays). Sometimes there is overlap and it's not always clear.

Singular breeze

In the woods today, I heard a sound that overtook my iPod. I turned it off to listen and I could hear the rolling, breeze coming through the leaves of the trees. It seemed to pick up momentum as it got closer and the birds flew away as if in anticipation.

It slammd into my bag like an invisible hand and then over and around it kept moving forward as it were an invisible train moving along an unseen track.

I stood listening to it leave me behind and the rustling of the leaves around me as they settled down. Then I turned the iPod back on and continued on my way.

In the woods

I saw a tree today that was growing mostly horizontally to reach the sunlight across a clearing. In fact, the tree had been growing horizontally mostly from its base. Other trees nearby grew slanted after a point to try and reach the sun, but this tree started from a place that seemed like it felt where the sun would be years before it actually had a chance of getting near it.