Was preparing my official website for job hunting purposes and needed to update a link or two and properly credit some people, only to find out one of them passed away.
Rest in peace Kody, that's such a shock. I stumbled upon the most befitting tribute to this man and I want to keep it where I can access it later.
Summer 2019 was easily in the top three worst periods of my life, and unfortunately with that, a lot of things were swept away with the goo of despair and pain. I forgot that for a brief hour, within the span of a conversation - one of many that we had about wood -, Kody had given me the epiphany of 2019:
"wood is among the most extraordinary and statistically improbable materials in the observable universe. Supernovas, comets, asteroid belts, and planets are abundant with minerals, heavy elements, and even exotic compounds, but wood requires biological life and a specific evolutionary emergence of plant tissue, a biochemical architecture that arose only once in Earth's own history. No planet yet discovered has shown any evidence of conditions capable of generating anything close to wood."
