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You Are Only 43% Human

A red fastback car from the 1980s, sitting semi-abandoned in front of an abandoned building in Roscoe, New York.
Semi-abandoned property. Coming soon to a corner near you. Roscoe, NY.

Wander Report: 2 Cold Nights in the Catskills

Just got back from 2 nights in the Catskills with my friend A., who is also a high-level wanderer, on her way to the high desert to work with troubled llamas.

We ate psilocybin in a 3-season cabin before sunrise and huddled near the iron stove, leaking from our eyes and noses. Here's some of what the mushrooms had to say:

Some sea beads on a string, harvested from the banks of the Hudson River, and a tarot card with a leprechaun and some mushrooms in it, squinting at the view. There's also an old globe and a jar of tiger balm.
The only card I pulled during our trip was this fucking leprechaun. Notice the mushrooms in the background. Yes sir, thank you, I will follow.
  1. We're glad to have our meat back. That plastic bag was getting OLD.
  2. We love you whiny mammals. We love letting you metabolize us, while we metabolize you. We love that you love our gentle mocking, but please, stop knocking on our door asking us to solve all your problems. You don't even understand the exchange we're making.
  3. You guys think you're the only form of consciousness here on this galactic oasis? HAHAHAHA. Here's some nausea and reduced motor control to go with your terrifying, exalting hallucinations.
  4. You built a civilization with THOSE guys??? (Side-eying wheat.)
  5. You're only 43% human. The rest of you is other organisms. You're a starship with a crew of 69 trillion pretending to be a person, taking it out in the cosmos to bump into other starships. Star Trek is REAL. "You" are an organization at least as much as you're an organism. But still, put on your pants.
A rock outcropping with little caves, indicative of a 'fairy house'.
Outside the cabin. Fairy walk-up.

That's the report from our large-dose Monday morning trip. The rest of it was a cold and beautiful, with snow and plumbing problems and car drama and some meandering walks and cool old industrial towns. I owe you a wander report on Old Money Gang Signs which should drop on Thursday.

An unchanged storefront from the 1960s for Krauss Photo Service, with an old KODAK sign still hanging out front in Port Jervis, NY.
Port Jervis, NY. Sits at the confluence of the Delaware and the Neversink rivers where NY, NJ, and PA meet. The English arrived here in 1697. There was a fort starting in 1740, and the Delaware and Hudson Canal opened in 1828. Rail lines arrived in the 1840s. It grew wealthy because it was on the coal route from PA to NYC and beyond, and that access to heat turned PJ into an industrial hub, particularly for glass making. Now it's a friendly working class town, in the early stages of gentrification.

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