Category: Health
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Hope Amid Distress
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Throughout his tidy narrative Tidwell grapples with the most universally disheartening issue of our day without sending the reader into despair. Rather than spread the disease of hopelessness, we hear voices of reason who’ve dedicated their lives to climate action, in their own backyards and across the neighborhood.
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Dental Fitness
I can understand if the hygienist wants to talk: it’s the loneliest profession in the world. But why—WHY?—did the person with eight fingers and two implements in my mouth insist on asking questions?
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Wisteria
Captured along the Shiloh Greenway in Morrisville North Carolina. Lots of pollen and sunshine yesterday. Thunderstorms and heavy rain in the evening. The streets looked painted yellow this morning and the pollen count remains elevated. Touring UNC and have thoughts on that to share tomorrow. ##
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Jimmy Carter
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I met him in Accra when the Carter Center visited Ghana for an update on its Guinea Worm eradication program. He was humble, polite, and eager to hear from the embassy briefers.
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Crossing the Potomac on an Icy Morning
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in Auto Repair, Automobile, Biking, Cars, Driving, Health, Nature, Seasons, Sports, Travel, Virginia, Washington, Weather, Winter, WritingFar from loathsome, I found magic in the chill, and the magic felt transformative, wakeful.
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What I’m Reading
This product might be a source of what folks these days call toxic masculinity, but which is really just a acting like an asshole while being a man.
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My Barber, My Chiropractor
my barber is an artist with blades and attachments that buzz exquisitely around my head. He uses at least three different scissors snipping with casual abandon to create a snowstorm of clippings before clearing my face in a single stroke. He runs his blades across my eyebrows and whistles out my nose—only the Turkish barber…
Ben East Books 