today i learned anthropologists can tell which long dead people chose to spend their time hiking long distances, which spent years hunched over making pottery, which were ball players, which threw thousands of spears, which chose to spend a life playing the clarinet— all by analyzing the patterns of wear on their bones. how beautiful: the way you choose to spend your time gets etched into your bones. the choices you make and the experiences you have alter the literal structure of your being. your will and intentions— your mind— become matter, grooves in calcium, traces of what you were