Serena's kittens are complicating everything. I didn't expect they could be born alive, but they are; I don't like to go out and leave Serena separated from them, I don't like to go out and leave Serena locked into the office (cats can be a bit phobic about being locked in alone), and I don't like to leave them out on the porch in the poisoned air. This inconvenience will pass, soon enough, one way or another.
Archaeology
I always take archaeology with a grain of salt...but Elizabeth Barrette's science fiction "poems" are worth fact-checking. With archaeology the facts are that somebody who's studied a lot of remains and ruins thinks something used to be a certain way. They think that giant species similar to existing species today used to be found in the Southern States as well as along the Pacific coast. So, point to Priscilla Bird--if pawpaws, a small tree that bears human-hand-sized fruit, and persimmons, a medium-sized tree that bears human-bite-sized fruit, and honey locust, a tree that can grow large but bears small "bean"-like fruit, used to have giant relatives, then who knows, maybe a race of really gigantic apes, humans, or humanoids used to roam around and eat those fruit! Still, that would have been a looooong time ago...
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(Clarifying terms: The Susquehannock people, or "Pennsylvania Giants," were bigger than most of the people who documented the collapse of their community but they'd be called tall people, not giants, by modern standards: most seem to have been about six feet tall, men often a little more, women usually a little less. By "really gigantic" I mean eight or nine feet tall. That Goliath really stood 9'4" I can believe, though the ancient Israelite cubit may have been less than 18". Reportedly a few men have grown almost 10' tall, though even reportedly they don't seem to have lived long. The tallest man whose height was verifiable by modern measurements was just under 9'. Biologists tell us that ape-type or human-type bones can't support a living body much over 10' tall, and even those who are over 7' tall are seldom really healthy. If healthy Sasquatch are 9' or 10' or more, they'd have to be a different kind of animal. But there may once have been humanoid creatures who were as different from us as condors are from vultures--who knows?)
Linguistics
Yet another reason why learning indigenous American languages is so difficult...
Music
War (the band).
Bill Evans' "Peace Piece."
Blind Faith.
Neil Young.
Ludovico Einaudi.
Yeahman.
Madonna (Ceccone).
Matthew Halsall.
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