Hello from the Net Road

The assorted succulents above, pictured foregrounding a typical summer afternoon Taipei rainshower, have a story. The story is that they were neglected in the teachers’ office, but then a UV lamp was going to be used to disinfect the teachers’ office and that anything living needed to be removed, so someone took the neglected succulents outside and set them on the little wall that looks over the courtyard, and there they have sat since, and there they sat when I arrived last year. I am not sure what the point of the story was, though I have heard it three times now. Did the succulents look much worse off or less healthy in the office, and this is a tale of how they thrived outside? Was the story just a tale about how no one really does anything with these succulents yet they manage to sit there year after year, largely undisturbed? Like a lot of my understanding of the school I have worked at for a year now, it feels incomplete. It is a surreal workplace, sometimes. <a href="https://medium.com/@GrahamMOliver/hello-from-the-net-road-79fd1a4695f4">Learn More</a>