Do we matter? Or do we not matter? This is the question that will dictate what we do…

As a young teen, this airfield was the best place to learn how to drive. With history looming all around, the vast, unused concrete runways were long and safe. Little did we know the drama that had unfolded only two generations prior.

Later, I heard rumors of brash young men climbing the green and white aerodrome beacon to stare down the light shaft which illuminated the night for miles in all directions. Dangerous and foolhardy, it was too tempting an idea to refuse. What an amazing sight…

This episode of Radiolab sets up the importance of words to our sense of self.

Overpass story from Grandpa Apley, told many times on long road trips in Nebraska by my father.

Lugnuts story from my Grandpa Apley