God of the Compost, Part 1

Beauty For Ashes 

The unearthly scene immersed us. On both sides of the road a deep and uniform blanket of light gray covered the ground and everything on it– clear to the horizon.

Beginning of Wisdom

A wrist-worn clock is a remarkable invention and a marvel of manufacturing. The first common availability of wristwatches appeared about a century ago, when we still moved about the earth under steam power, and we performed calculations on paper using nothing more than a pencil and the mind.