Forrest Gump was wrong. Life is not at all like a box of chocolates.
There are great, nouget filled days to be sure with little sea salt and almond sprinkles on top. But the saying implies that even the rotten days are still sugary sweet, And that’s just not true. Life is more like an Easter basket filled with assorted chocolates and also dotted with hang grenades and root canals.
Yesterday we tasted all of them.
The final signup numbers for the conference look really good. Better than expected even, with a new registration from Kansas fish and wildlife of all places. We stand at nearly 900 registrations, and 600 of them are from the golden state, which is everything I can hope for,
But then we saw that the scrappy newly dam built by an anonymous beaver in the park behind my house had been ripped out by city staff. Totally. You can still see the footprints where they hiked down the hill to do the deed. It feels so pointless. I almost wish I didn’t care at all because then I’d never notice and feel like this,
All the wood and mud and stone gone. The crutches and booze bottle gone. All the fresh grass on the bank dying because of the missing water and their rotten feet stomping down to the bank to wield the rake. Any hope Martinez has of being in National Geographic gone – don’t ask. Sometimes I really hate city staff.
But if the beaver is feeling like sticking around he might try again. And we also got this yesterday, which is as good of good news as your heart ever wanted to hear. If you never even watch videos on this website change your policy today because this is GOOD. And it doesn’t make up for the hand grenade and the root canal but it comes really dam close.
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