A Rattle with Death in Yosemite

Kyle Dickman | 33 minutes

When Kyle Dickman set out on a month-long road trip with his wife and infant son last spring, he was fueled by a carefree sense of adventure that had defined his entire life. Then he got bit by a venomous snake in a remote area of Yosemite National Park, and the harrowing event changed everything.

Snippets

I can sense that Twitter is hijacking my natural drive to earning prestige from people I know and replacing it with an insatiable hunger to compete for status from internet strangers.

- Nick DeWilde & Paul Millerd, To Tweet Or Not To Tweet?

Civic virtues, as it turns out, do not spring up out of nowhere.

All virtues and vices arise from habits engendered by practices, which, in turn, reflect the material infrastructure of our social lives.

- L. M. Sacasas, When the Timeline Becomes Our Sidewalk

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