I remember us always using the word 

serfs

when we were living at 

Snyder Phillips

. You were really getting into 

Russian Culture

back then -- even taking the language class lol. I didn't end up getting into the culture until years later when I fell in love with its 19th century literary canon.

While this isn't the style of things I like reading -- which is interesting because I love thinking about the world this way in my head... but i don't like writing/reading it -- I liked reading this still.

Not yesterday night though. I tried reading this and I wasn't open to it. Reading it now, sipping a nice new-crop 

sencha

 green tea and I appreciate the framing of the building of our fossil layers. Appreciate the way it connects to how us humans who think we are so unique do things that would puzzle others looking at us from the sky for this is always what we'd done.