5. No destination—the 'Tread Lightly Experiment'
How a forest storm uprooted my life and led me to exploration and curiosity

Hello! I’m so delighted you’re here! Let’s get ready for the trip.
‘I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.’ E.B White
This SubStack is to share the road I took to arrive at Gen2200—a vision for a better future, starting in the ‘now’. By the end of this post we will be on the experiment and you will know why being locked into the forest and my work during the pandemic, through extreme weather events, made me take a step out.
I’ve long been a fan of E.B White. I read ‘Charlotte’s Web’ repeatedly as a child, and later learned he did much more than pen a children’s book on farm life. As well as loving animals and his farm, White was also an excellent essayist. And his (as well as Strunk’s) Elements of Style was on my desk as a guide I used for editing and teaching fo…
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