I started playing a game with myself during my freshman year of college: how many species can I identify? At first I could only easily distinguish between birds and mammals. Then I was like oh well maybe I should bay closer attention to plants, then I realized how do I tell the difference between trees? Ok leaves are easy enough things to spot but why are some plants woody and some are… Wait how do I describe that? (Word I was looking for was herbaceous).

I took a lot of shrooms during that time, realized Im not built for an office environment and decided to study horticulture and botany even though it wasn’t offered at my university. I decided that I’d become a horticulturist and everyone around me probably thought I was smoking too much weed.

They were probably right, but I stuck to the plan regardless.