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I don't know what I am doing, but do you think it is anything good?

I think of Paul Grobstein every year on his birthday.  This year, it is his encouragement to experiment and to work across disciplinary boundaries that I want to celebrate.  A long time ago, I sent him an email with a subject line: I don't know what I am writing, but do you think it is anything good?  It was a prose poem and not an essay about neurobiology and that did not matter to him in the slightest.  So here is something only a little bit similar...

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Coot swimming away from stepsCoot on steps
Coot on steps reflectionCoot grooming