Sometimes I Think I've Figured Out Some

Every Corny Thing That's Said About Living With Nature - Being In Harmony With The Earth, Feeling The Cycle Of The Seasons - Happens To Be True.

Among All Life Forms, There Are Creatures With Charisma And Creatures Without. It's One Of Those Ineffable Qualities We Can't Quite Define, But We All Seem To Respond Similarly To.

The Fact That Dogs Are Not People Means You Don't Have As Much Response To The Particulars.

When I Heard About The Microsoft Kinect, Though, I Felt An Urgency Rising In Me. A Game You Played Without Touching Any Machinery? A Chance To Wave Your Hands Around, Minority-report Style, And Move Things Around On A Screen? This Sounded Like Almost Too Much Fun, With Gadget-y Pizzazz That Sounded Astonishing.

Writing About Someone Well Known Removes That Obligation Of Defending It As A Subject, But It Also Means That Some Of The Surprise And Freshness Is Already Gone. It's So Different - In Some Ways Much Harder For Me.