Edinburgh

Spending a day wandering around Edinburgh was a great change of pace. Today I found myself marveling at the beautiful old buildings, and mentally contrasting the weight of history in these ancient stones with the lightness and energy of the young people darting about in their shadow.

It’s as though two species are coexisting at vastly different time scales. In many places the cityscape here changes very slowly if at all, and buildings can last for centuries. If they could observe us, perhaps we would seem very strange to them — energetic blurs flitting through life in the blink of an eye.