Postcard from the Edge

Icebergs, Forests and Wayfinding.

Patrick Fox was born on July 15, 1883, in Boher, Ireland. In 1912, at 28, he decided to board the Titanic, likely to join relatives he had living in the United States. On the night of April 14, around 11:40 pm, the Titanic struck an iceberg about 400 miles south of Newfoundland. The collision caused the ship to begin sinking. Tragically, there were not enough lifeboats for all the passengers and crew. Patrick Fox did not survive the sinking. His body was never recovered. Image: Author, on his wanderings with good friends.

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

John Muir April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914)

We all have plans. We estimate, calculate, forecast and hope.

The problem with planning, when it involves anything organic, is that the situation keeps changing. What might be causing something today, for a moment, is different a few moments later. Any connection we make fragments into a million different channels as we try t…