Chris “Petey” Peterson

“But I think, the older I get the less I’m oriented toward things I have as opposed to things I make, and the conditions under which I make them. Our experiences die with us, and our family inherits our possessions, but the world inherits the things we made, which were shaped by the conditions under which we made them. These are the things that last. If I died tomorrow, my memories of surfing in Puerto Rico, or hiking in Kazakhstan, would be gone, and my family would get a lot of books and not much else. They were lovely things to have, but they won’t last. But some small part of me would live on in the things I’ve written, and the students I’ve helped select, and everything they influenced downstream. “

Date: May 18, 2017