Everything is Fertile | Nick Cammarata
Appreciation
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Date Added
8.15.25
TLDR
We may bucket habits/places/people into sterile (bland) / fertile (interesting), but whenever we classify something as the former, we fail to appreciate the fertility of everything. There's wonder and beauty in the "mundane."
2 Cents
Beautiful beautiful piece that weaves perfect examples (Ghibli, Shulgin) into his own story. Made me smile really hard and feel excited.
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I tried writing about learning to savor the mundane in 
on traveling: to learn to live ; Nick's essay is what I hoped mine would end up looking like. One of my favorite essays of this year.
And when I'm confronted with sterility, I will embrace that if only I had better eyes I'd see that everything is fertile.