you may not believe that a toilet seat
can be the most beautiful sight in the
world but maybe you would if you’re
an ol’ woman on a four-day canoe trip
on the wisconsin river eating sleeping
on sandbars where your facility is a
trowel and you seek out a spot screened
by thin willows in addition to the
unaccustomed posture you see your
bare bum’s shadow plus shadows of
mosquitoes around that bare bum I
think REI makes a camping stool a
good investment for the next trip it’s
of course something humankind has
done since time immemorial half the
world still does I was impressed though
when at the ruins of ephesus I found a
spacious seated latrine for those ancient
greeks with provision for running water
This article appears in Aug 6-12, 2015.
