This essay is what is known as a decentered hermit crab essay. It is decentered because any one of the panels can be read in any order and the essay still flows and makes sense. It’s something I wrote during my writing intensive last Fall and have tweaked over the past month.
Many thanks to my friend, Candice, who helped me insert the background photo of Geoffrey into the essay as well as helping me turn the pdf into a jpg. Hopefully, the jpg is readable to everyone.