Nor ski, paddleboard, jetski, Razr; it’s just not the kind of thing a peasant or rice farmer finds useful or productive or even affordable.

I do want to be involved in the process of keeping myself warm, and not have a gas bill.

I want to figure out how to cook my curry over the same stove that keeps me warm, instead of paying a cook and a waiter.

I want to live close to the dirt and let it feel me alive because it’s an antidote to the fear.

I’m not sure that hospitals matter to me.

I am sure that trees do.