First thing tomorrow I’m driving down to Milburn Landing State Park, near Pocomoke City, MD, for a weekend of camping with some boyhood chums: a long-overdue reunion inspired by a weekend we spent there 40 years ago this summer.
One of us lives in San Diego, one in Minnesota, one in Cincinnati, and one in Blacksburg, Virginia — so we almost never get to see each other. It’s really easy never to get around to things like this: you keep talking about it in a vague way, and the years roll by, and the next thing you know it’s too late, because you’re dead. Not this time, though!
Anyway, I’ll likely be right off the grid till next week. So here’s an entertaining video clip, just sent my way by my boy Nick: an experiment, involving monkeys, that, as the presenter mentions, goes a long way toward explaining Occupy Wall Street.
(After I watched it, though, I realized that to really get it right you’d need to have monkey A out digging up rocks, and monkey B just banging on the wall, throwing poo, and demanding half of monkey A’s grapes.)
Anyway, we’ll be back next week. I haven’t felt like writing much since getting back from California anyway; I’m still mulling things over, and sorting out what I want the tone of this blog to be going forward. Maybe this will get the juices flowing.