rights-of-way are usually perceived as disturbance zones that provide a habitat and corridor for non-native species.

I gained a friend that day, and had the bathtub cockpits of the knockabouts.

the smile of the gods

“Do you understand me? Are you stunod?” my mother would say. Stunod. Someone who is out-of-it, spacey, not a practical person who knows that life is labor and that only the sturdy can get the job done.