less careless appreciation
Whizzing tiny planets, easily taken for granted until they’re still and fill the world with silence. Wednesday’s world was too: reliant upon the electron to power the lines of life. No doubt heroic crews, scrambling for any clues, will trace the place in need of a splice or two. Until then I’ll do my part, silent in the dark, as miser of a battery and care for it less-ly.
Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and offers free critical thinking and character development courses online.
“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”
