Quantum consciousness...

[The Grand Nudger]

So did your dad have a nursery growing these plants?  Pretty cool.  I've come to adore plants but never got into them early on.  My first obsession was animals.  Living in San Diego and visiting the zoo as a kid I read everything our local library had on animals and their behavior.  Of course you can't keep exotic critters in your backyard while you can grow any plant from anywhere in the world whose needs you can satisfy - and where I live you can access almost anything.

Yep, we were the biggest landscaper in the state (and he started out mowing his friends parents lawns in the officer district S. of MacDill AFB).  Nobody could adequately supply us so he (my siblings father) bought the land directly adjacent to Tampa Bay Downs as a nursery.  Whenever school was in that's where I spent most of my time.  Place looked like a jungle.  There are condos and a shopping plaza there now.  Sucks ass.  I won't drive by it.  Whenever school was out I was north and inland in Gainesville, digging peanuts and chasing pigs on a converted magnolia nursery, when I wasn;t poaching the state park it bordered...ofc. lol.  

Obviously, I was doomed to some form of quasi pagan nature worship from the start. For laughs...despite literally growing up in plants and nurseries...I couldn't get a job working on a yard crew when I first moved to KY. I tried, they passed.

So I wonder if you feel like you got back the same mind you started with or if you traded up?  Seems like a pretty nimble model you got there now.  Went through a one time depression which turned out to be transformative in some ways.  Before and after feel a bit discontinuous.  I like this side better.

I'm unrecognizable, before and after.  I know it, my friends are still a -little- uncomfortable with it...my family laments the loss. I couldn;t care less. Old me fucked up, alot, and made bad decisions for stupid reasons, lol.