Ocean optics has some nice compact products. There might be some used ones on eBay—not sure about your budget. Some undergraduate labs may have surplus too. Good luck!

Or maybe it’s the idiocracy. Fueled by Coca Cola. And perversion for apocalypse.

It’s all these things. And I want to accept them. And be a bad Buddhist. Satisfaction. Watch the beautiful sky and the soft moss. Drips and streams. No proselytizing. Love and compassion for your knight 🌓☯️🕉️☮️🤮🧘‍♂️

And a note on this language: twirling around nebulousness twirling around conspiracy twirling around winks vs exhausting the ethos of truth as Hemingway wrote it… where’s the trenchant, innovative dance music?

Beauty & profundity & simplicity & innovation without desperation ~

So we hit rock bottom. When and how? No guarantees against total devolution with nuclear weapons and climate change. Faith in good. The public square streams poisoned.

Why has the status quo devolved, yet we feel stagnant, what helplessness situated in the end of the project of American exceptionalism. Untruths, post-truth rain, toward authoritarianism, sillyism, artificial sweetener, gangsterism, patrimonialism, greed. But that is not stable.