Letters to you

All the criminals obligingly stayed home, sat still, and grew hair on the day that would have caused them to have a trial on 3/3/2006.

We were all sent home from jury duty at 3:00 today.

I know a lot of people thrive on the courtroom drama and the vaguaries of the criminal justice system, but for the same reason that I can't be around hospitals without feeling really sick, being around courtrooms (or even thinking about courtrooms) does the same thing. I'm glad appearing for the day and reading by a window seat in the jury lounge was all it amounted to.

I spent the entire day reading Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets. That book was the perfect antidote to "courtroom/hospital sickness" that I experience... Maybe because it represents the diametric opposite of those energies. I highly recommend that book - especially for silvaerina_tael, who spent some years studying wetlands remediation and waste management. It's scientifically written and based on 30 years of experience with using fungi, particularly mushrooms, to remediate contaminated habitats.

In other words it treats the system instead of the symptoms. Like I said, the diametric opposite of courtrooms and hospitals...

Actually, though, I'm in favor of doing both - treating both the symptoms and the system (I just feel more comfy at one end of that than the other for my own purposes).