garden cucumbers and tomatoes are unmatched

 it's like tasting in 3D

It reminds me of the immortal Peggy Hill quote, "If this is food, what have we been eating?"

I'm big into chia seed water right now

 I like the slime.

It's the closest society will let me get to drinking pond water.

The nutritional powerhouse of guzzling frog eggs.

here's a million dollar idea

 big cake.

it's not just a big cake.

it's a crumb. like a single crumb of a cake. but that crumb is the size and weight of a wedding cake. 

suggesting an artifact from an impossibly large cake of a time long forgot not unlike the dinosaurs of yore

Bruce Lee famously feared the man who practiced one punch a thousand times.

Here are some other things Bruce Lee feared.

A big clock with a boxing glove on the end of the second hand and every time it ticks it also punches you.

A bunch of bats flying together in the shape of a fist that punches you.

A special fruit called punch fruit that has edible seeds but the seeds are actually little fists and when you eat them they punch your insides.

A guy with two fists on one arm so every time he punches you he's double punching you.

A bunch of birds flying together in the shape of a fist that punches you.

A bunch of fish swimming together in the shape of a fist that punches you when you're underwater.

His older brother, specifically after his older brother trained a bunch of mosquitoes to fly together in the shape of a fist that punches you and sucks your blood also.

A punch called the dehydration punch that can punch all the water out of you.

An overly large cigarette with a fist on the end of it and when someone smokes it and exhales the smoke it sends out of a bunch of smoke fists that punch you.

A punch car that punches you.

Being held down and punched by a bunch of angry dudes that are good at punching.

Those are the other things Bruce Lee feared that they won't teach you about in school. You can find more stuff like this in my upcoming book.

the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man

 "Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right."

Herman Melville with some absolute heat

last day of the first season of Rocky Top Summer Camp

 it's small but it's mine

the trick of memory

 the other day I was reminded of the Dolly Sods backpacking trip I led back in 2021. I watched some clips of videos I took and thought, 'wow. that was like the best time of my life. I would give anything to be able to do that again.'

But then! I remembered that I was also like annoyed the whole time. Or, not the whole time. There were a lot of great moments. It was a really special trip. But there were plenty of times where I was annoyed or frustrated. 

But maybe it's not a mean trick that memory plays on you. To only remember what was good and special about it. 

Maybe it's a sign that you should let stuff go more. That all those little things are going to fade away anyway. So why bother getting worked up about it in the first place? 

Hmmm hmmm much to consider

I'll tell you what I did do though that I was rarely annoyed with. WINTER CAMPING. Go find that post from March 15th, 2013. 

I'd run that back in a SECOND.

Trips I'd Run Back (ranked)

-Winter Camping 2013

-Costa Rica 2023

-Dolly Sods 2021

-Florida 2022

-Costa Rica 2020 and Florida 2024