When I was in high school, my dad was a prepper. He was stockpiling food, weapons, the usual. Of course, as a high schooler, I was like, "Whatever, Dad. I'll tell my friends about our rice and bean stockpile if I want to tell my friends about our rice and bean stockpile. The first rule of prepping is that you don't talk about prepping.It was a lot. But on some level, I understood his motive to have the means to take care of us no matter what happened. And I also understood the fear.I knew kids who had been ...

TEDex Cabarete Dominican Republic. [Music] I'm 4 years old and I'm sat on the edge with the wet grass at the rose hedge border of my mom and dad's garden making a delicious mud pie. It's whole, wet, and messy.And I love how it flo I feels joyful this furious and this faithful. Suddenly I'm drawn to this log in the corner. So I called over and it's back further.I turn the log over and I find these strange white hairike threads covering the entire surface. I begin to trace them, finding out that they're stick ...