I Find myself pondering the question: Is it any comfort to a tree that falls in a forest without any human beings present, that it has become an existential enigma?

I was doing my laundry, which included a new pillowcase because in a previous laundry session my blue pillow case had disappeared, leaving me to wrap a towel around my pillow to serve as a pillowcase. Using the towel had gone longer than I had originally anticipated because pillowcases were ...