{"id":5096,"date":"2011-07-05T19:51:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T02:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5096"},"modified":"2011-07-05T19:51:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T02:51:26","slug":"the-shape-of-things-are-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=5096","title":{"rendered":"The shape of things are simple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5096 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/275591-R1-22-24.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/275591-R1-22-24-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/275591-R1-18-20.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/275591-R1-18-20-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/b1.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/b1-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/b2.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/b2-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Today marks the second month of my internship. I am writing<br \/>\nfrom the hotel, after proudly losing to a watermelon-smashing competition, and<br \/>\nI am wondering where the next month is going to take me. This last month has<br \/>\nbeen truly inspiring. Rolling over hills covered with Oak and Pines, standing<br \/>\non top of a mesa where the first Navajo families settled, witnessing my first<br \/>\nNew Mexico sunrise- all these simple things that one could do any day if<br \/>\nfeeling so inclined, yet is apparently different and altogether unique from daily<br \/>\nmundane life. I am starting to get a sense of what this new land means to me,<br \/>\nbeauty in simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>The ball has started rolling; I spent most of the first half<br \/>\nof June monitoring populations whose seeds seemed to take forever to ripen,<br \/>\nthen suddenly demanded our (Jamie and I) collecting the week prior to leaving<br \/>\nfor the workshop. There was a sudden shift and we found ourselves<br \/>\npassing the day feeling worth and seeing yield in our work. I realized soon<br \/>\nafter collecting our first population that there is something so therapeutic about<br \/>\ntuning everything out, focusing on the task at hand and enjoying the landscape.<br \/>\nI only hope for this to continue.<\/p>\n<p>This last month of work has challenged my skills as a<br \/>\nbotanist; being able to recognize the common plants in the area now has shifted<br \/>\nmost of my attention on searching for target list species and determining viable<br \/>\npopulations for collection. A nice change of pace if I might say, and one that can\u2019t<br \/>\ncome at a better time now that many species are beginning to take to seed.<\/p>\n<p>It is near the end of the week and I fly back to Farmington<br \/>\nsoon. This workshop has been more than amazing; it has been an absolute<br \/>\npleasure to see the faces of this program and where CLM Internship came from\/is<br \/>\ngoing. To be able to come out to the Chicago Botanic Garden is such a privilege<br \/>\nand I feel lucky the resources are available to do so. Now it is time to head<br \/>\nback and continue working my way through this internship. I am sure many more<br \/>\nspecies are ready to go and the workload is piling. The simpler life waits and<br \/>\nis only getting more beautiful. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Wenke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the second month of my internship. I am writing from the hotel, after proudly losing to a watermelon-smashing competition, and I am wondering where the next month is going to take me. 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