During the summer before social-work studies, I built this shelter, called the Birdhouse because of its shape, and put it up in the woods at the foot of the San Juan Forest in Colorado — overlooking the Lower-Blanco River.

This is where the seeds of awareness sprouted and grew into alternative mathematics. During the MSW years, and for more than a decade afterward, this was the inspirational center for re-thinking our stories of physics and applied mathematics.

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