Things I've Found In Pockets

The Child in Question When my son Chas was little, I lost him in the rainforest. This wasn’t as exciting as you might expect. I asked around and people said ‘nope, haven’t seen him for hours, he’s probably gone up the river’. He turned up later, barefoot, with some biologists he’d befriended. They were looking for a particular type of crayfish, he knew exactly which river pool those crayfish hung out in. The forest was his home. It was like a child raised in a town popping to the corner shop.  The forest speaks to those who know how to see and how to listen. You, walking along the main street in your town, can immediately see the difference between a donut shop and a pharmacy and a post office, while the rainforest looks like a huge green mystery. Remember that the rainforest is home, not only to millions of plants and animals but to people as well. People who call the rainforest their home know that plants have little signs on them saying 'danger', or 'edible', or ...