Summary

69: Ross delights in makeshift projects, which he calls "jenky" (181). Examples abound in his garden and the act of fixing something and making do are directly rejections of capitalism. Ross notes that this is often born of economic necessity but he advocates the innovation of spirit and the act of figuring things out, not the conditions of poverty.

70: Ross is critical of this era of hyper-photography. He witnesses people posing for countless pictures when a crow starts whacking the surface of a nearby creek with his wings. Ross takes this sound to mean: "take your head out of your ass and be glad" (185).

71: Returning to his previous dislike of statues with guns, Ross notes a statue on campus that someone has adorned with flowers. He sees the impulse to adorn statues in this way as evidence of our inclination to communicate with what is...