Rutherford Hayes in the Morning

"From a biological perspective, the interconnectivity of our brain structure is just amazing. It's what allows us to freely associate loosely connected concepts, leads to sudden bursts of understanding, and creates many, many different ways to approach the same problem. Neurons can form a number of connections that has never been determined to have an upper limit, as far as I know. Someone once estimated it as three hundred. That's a lot of associations to make. Could I make three hundred associations with the same single idea?"

Rutherford Hayes in the morning
is sailing into San Francisco
it's the first time a president has ever been to California

"It's amazing how just one thing, the particular wavelength of sound, the piling up of so many sinusoidal waves, can bring back so many memories. Probably not three hundred, but a lot. Just the sound of this voice makes me think of summer, summer in the freshman dorms, with bright sunshine outside the window. The way the floors smell in the humidity, and the coolness of the wooden desks. The feeling of missing someone. Being happy to be in love, and loved. And the sunshine, on the grass, just outside the window. Scents of lavender and ginger, clean cotton slightly damp under my hands."

Sometimes science can't save you from your own brain.