It’s alive! We’re loving this blooming amaryllis providing color in mid-winter, as well as our still-blooming Christmas Cactus and about-to-bloom clivia.
More about COVID and the brain. www.washingtonpost.com
“Given that more than one hundred million people worldwide have been infected by the novel coronavirus, how the disease affects the brain might be the neurologic research question of our time.”
Currently reading: The Danzig Trilogy: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years by Günter Grass 📚
Finished reading: The Overstory by Richard Powers 📚 Totally worth reading. It’s a good companion to The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Why forests are worth saving, and why we should think of trees as more than a product. And also, love, loyalty, art, science, parents, and children.
Currently reading: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
Currently reading: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 📚
Finished reading: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 📚
Finished reading: Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas R Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander 📚 An 800 page slog. The one chapter about scientists and creative breakthroughs is quite interesting.
OMG Kitty Letter on the Apple App Store is a very funny, totally free game. From The Oatmeal.
It’s light enough to run 🏃♀️ after work!
Yes! I found a sporg! This was growing in the crawl space of our Town Hall. We found it when we were doing a walk-through prior to beginning a renovation project.
I went skiing again this morning. The plan is that I ski for 3 hours, then drive to my office, then get some productive work done. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! I’m physically exhausted (in a good way) and brain dead. I think I’ll just go find stuff to eat.
A muddy summer morning in 2018 after quite the August thunderstorm (not my car)
Currently reading: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 📚
These rare Lady Slipper’s orchids, which return every year in this remote spot, give me hope.
I am craving the homemade cookies that used to show up every Monday at our local contra dance.
Day 6: sport
Skiing is my favorite sport, closely followed by swimming, and more recently running 🏃♀️ (in the Galloway style).
Cat in a box Pets 🐈
Fun stuff: David Byrne Radio 🎶
And I had on more layers than this when I was skiing earlier today
I take comfort in all my books about great learning-based activities (and checking if @Hauntedradiator fixed my photo problem)
Morning beverage — one oolong leaf which gets more hot water all day
Finished reading: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum 📚
Finished reading: The Margot Affair by Sanaë Lemoine 📚 I’m going to give this one an “ugh.” Unlikeable characters. Dumb story. The only lesson seems to be “don’t tell journalists something that you don’t want published widely” which, as a daughter of Washington, DC, I already knew.
A close up of an old manuscript
