🌈 TREE 268: This place is a joke

One.

I get paid actual money to arrange words and shapes and pictures. I talk passionately with my colleagues and clients about clarity and effectiveness and balance. And I’m talking about a logo or a leaflet. Evenings and weekends I write words and draw silly pictures for you – wherever you exist in the world – so that hopefully you will be helped and amused. Half a century ago, roughly, I was no more than a sperm lodged in an egg in another person’s body. (Shout out to my mom!) There are places in the universe where matter is so densely packed that it sucks in light. Time moves at different speeds depending on where you are and how fast you are going. I once saw a whole pineapple sitting in the middle of the stream near our house. Farts exist. Thousands of years ago, someone figured out how to make olives edible. Mammals have bodies that manufacture milk. People will hate a sports team simply because it is located near the sports team they love. This other time I saw an entire egg in the grit bin at my office car park. Bowerbirds exist. Elon Musk exists. ‘The Mother We Share’ by CHVRCHES makes me cry and I have no idea why. The internet thinks I need to buy a cat food subscription. What I’m saying is, this whole thing we call ‘the universe’ is hilarious.

Are you in on the joke?

Two.

Tyrone is back from the library with a Terry Pratchett book he’s never read.

Three.

I’m pretty sure The Beatles got the joke.

I was telling the truth about the pineapple and the egg.

Grow slowly
Jeff