There are a thousand ways to kiss the ground

Exploration need not involve huge distances in Taichung.  There's a couple of Art Museums and a huge natural History Museum with a long green way connecting them.  Lots and lots of people too, but I usually don't intrude on them by snapping their photos.
 I walked through the massive greenhouse too.  My thoughts roam between loving the variety of things to discover and musing about how it would be nice to have someone to discover them WITH.  Solo exploration does have the supreme advantages of complete freedom and never having to wait for the other person.

Also, there is plenty of inner space to enjoy one's own responses to it all.  The natural history museum does such a great job of outlining the evolution of life with images and dioramas (dioramae?)  Since life has gone to so much trouble to survive and reproduce over millennia in changing circumstances what is the point, from an evolutionary perspective, of continuing to live past the years of production and reproduction?  I pose the question with an inner certainty that there is indeed a point, but am reluctant to try to put it into words.  Give it a try - now there's a challenge for the reader.  From dragon flies to opera; where are we going?

 Tall buildings with floor after floor of leafy balconies look down on the Taichung Opera house.   I think its under renovation right now, but for an urban neighbourhood its quite attractive.

So now I come to the encounter with the polar bear.  There was a certain kinship as I'm sure its a Canadian bear.  Perhaps the idea was that we can look both backwards and forwards in the same moment.