119 Species of Birds

written 3 Sep 2004 over dinner

I spent the day soaking up sunshine on Presque Isle while a coworker shot video of various frogs. Heat and steamy sweat sticking to my back and a world full of nature “preserved” around me.

I think it’s hilarious that these national parks have benches and trash cans and grills and pavilions and signs denoting the history of the place or what kind of tree you’re leaning against, then they say they’re “Just like being out into nature.”

I mean, I’m not against it in any way, I love them and they’re the perfect mesh of culture and mother earth, but “just like being in nature” well that’s a bit of a stretch.

Now onward for the final bike ride home of the week to slip into a tall cool bottle of wine and possibly wait for my fancy to call.

I’ve logged about 70 miles this week already, and plan on getting a few more in before Labor Day rains a tide of alcohol down over me.

La dee da and good day.

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  • I was extremely, ya totaly, psyked to just post a comment. However, waves to my eyes have stirred meaning in my mind, causing a physically anxious moment here, as I type, because those waves have brought forward a nervous understanding that my comment shall be no less than Published! Yet trucking on is at least somebody’s motto, and so I’m resigned to proceed, fear unsubsided.
    “Here goes” I’ve typed, whilst planning to pose this question.
    Are human beings and their creative and practical offspring, now to be considered a part of nature?
    I know this is not the way you Nathan Swartz, were considering “nature” when you prosed your essay.
    But now consider that nature as we presently see it Is littered with human droppings of practical and necessary trash cans.
    Present thoughts are really the only thoughts we can write about.

    Thank you, ME

    - Anonymous | 11:56pm 3 Sep 04

  • HEY WHAT UP. I THOUGHT THAT “119 SPECIES OF BIRDS” WAS ACTUALLY A REALLY COOL ESSAY. DUDE I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT THE LACK OF REAL NATURE ANYWHERE. I MEAN WE’RE TEARIN IT ALL DOWN AND ITS DEFINATELY THE GOVERNMENT’S FAULT. THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WE PUT IN CHARGE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE IMPORTANT ISSUES GET TAKEN CARE OF. I’M SICK OF SEEING LITTER ALL AROUND, TOO. I AGREE WITH YOU TOTALLY.
    AS FOR THAT PERSON THAT POSTED A COMMENT EARLIER, HE’S A FREAKIN MORON! ALL THAT “WAVES TO MY EYES” BULL. I BET HE’S IMPRISONED SOON, BECAUSE HE HAS NOTHING PRACTICAL TO SAY. THAT’S PROBABLY WHY HE’S ANONYMOUS TOO.

    LATER BRO, ANDY WILKINS, PORTLAND, OREGON

    - Anonymous | 03:31pm 8 Sep 04

  • HI, MY NAME IS SARA WILDES. I DONT HAVE A BLOG ACCOUNT SO SORRY ABOUT NOT HAVING AN ACCOUNT NAME. I THINK THAT ANDY HAS MISSED YOUR POINT. YOU EVEN SAID YOU DIDNT MIND THE TRASH CANS. LIKE IT WAS A PERFECT MIX OF MOTHERNATURE AND HUMANKIND. I LIKED THAT. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, I DON’T THINK THAT THAT ANDY SHOULD SAY ANYTHING MEAN TO OTHER POSTERS. HOW WOULD HE LIKE IT IF SOMEONE DID IT TO HIM YOU KNOW. I DIDNT REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THE ANONYMOUS WRITER WROTE BUT I DONT THINK HE’LL GO TO PRISON. THANKYOU

    - Anonymous | 03:36pm 8 Sep 04

  • ANYONE ELSE THINK THAT SARA CHICK SOUNDS HOT? I BET SHE HAS HUGE TI***

    LATER, MASTA KILLA
    HAHA

    HEY, ANYONE OUT THERE SHOULD CHECK OUT MY HOT OR NOT PHOTO AND GIVE IT A 10. MY NAME ON IT IS MASTA KILLA. I’D APPRECIATE IT.

    - Anonymous | 03:38pm 8 Sep 04

  • hi nathan

    i wanted to contact you because i’m a part of the gmail family. actually all of these coming sentences are only to mask what lies inside. you know what i mean. actually you don’t and that is why i’m still talking. there i’ve accomplished my goal of getting to the middle of the paragraph. if you havent guessed (via all messages were in caps and done within 5 minutes) i have written all of the messages. i hope i stirred some kind of emotion in you before you guessed, if you guessed. i hope you are not angry, and feeling like i’ve been messing around on your blog, and wish i hadn’t. but i did. i am sorry if you want me to be. but in case you dont, i just wanted to clear things up for you. did you like how andy was from portland. plus, sara probably is hot, but i’d give masta killa a 7 on hot or not. andy wilkins is an idiot though, i cant believe he dismantled so easily my mangled argument. (i sure wouldnt know if i was insane would i) or would i. anyway i shall sign here in the middle for i’ll not go anonymously anymore. i vow now and wholeheartedly to never go anonymously ever again. allow fire arrows to wash over me (obviously arrows shot from the gmail team, which i’m sure they’d do if i switched back to hotmail) or someone to cut my fingernails too closely so that when i wash my hair it feels anoyingly weird but all the while i’ll shout out my name.
    actually i’m at work and really better get back to printing things and doing crafts. these are really things i must do. seriously. i have to hit print a lot more before my aunt gets back, because there’d be an offchance that she’d say ‘well, you sure didnt hit print as much as you could have while i was gone’ and then i’d feel like i shouldnt ask to go to lunch break but i would anyway, but i’d feel weird. hey, maybe sara and i can double date with you and your faerie some time. GOODBYE BLOGGER.

    - Anonymous | 03:50pm 8 Sep 04

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