Imagination is more important than knowledge

My good friend and mentor, Professor Earl, straightens me out more often than a spring creek angler uncurls their tippet. Professor Earl, for example, taught me that bananas, tomatoes, and eggplants are berries, but strawberries and raspberries aren’t. He also showed me how the Bluetooth logo is made up of two Nordic runes, ᚼ and ᛒ, which are initials of a king named Harald Bluetooth. He taught me what a rune was, too, of course. “Did you see that movie about the atomic bomb?” Professor Earl ...