by demure

Hope: News from Bolinas

Bolinas, California, the Town that Tested Itself - The New Yorker

Curiosity: News from the deep

Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea: The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth - The New Yorker

Resolve

An Incalculable Loss - The New York Times

demure's desk

Lilacs on a bush are better than orchids. And dandelions and devil grass are better! Why? Because they bend you over and turn you away from all the people and the town for a little while and sweat you and get you down where you remember you got a nose again. And when you're all to yourself that way, you're really yourself for a little while; you get to thinking things through, alone. Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock.

from Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

funnies

Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson, October 20, 1992