Comments on: anthropology of environments: what I learned from the horseshoe crabs /2019/09/05/anthropology-of-environments-what-i-learned-from-the-horseshoe-crabs/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:21:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: John McCreery /2019/09/05/anthropology-of-environments-what-i-learned-from-the-horseshoe-crabs/comment-page-1/#comment-2975 Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:21:02 +0000 https://anthrodendum.org/?p=3361#comment-2975 A lovely meditation, which, oddly enough, reminds me of my father. We lived at the head of a tidal estuary that flowed into a small river that flowed into Chesapeake Bay. My dad loved to go fishing. One day I asked him why. I will never forget his answer: “If I told people I like to go out and stare at the water, they would think I was crazy.” In one of my last memories of him, it is dusk. He is sitting at the end of our pier staring at the water. A great blue heron flies down and sits beside him, no more than a yard away. They stare at the water together.

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