FINALLY!!!
Data visualization matters: purplestatesofamerica.org
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”
— The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Spinach and sausage 🍕
How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another.
— Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Tree
STILL WAITING!
But stoops to conquer, and but kneels to rise.
— Letters to His Son by Lord Chesterfield, misquoting Amphitryon by John Dryden
Still waiting.
The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it.
— “The Whisperer in Darkness” by H. P. Lovecraft
Polls are closing; now the waiting begins.
Polls are open.
GOWER
Enough, Captain. You have astonished him.
— Henry V Act 5 Scene 1 by William Shakespeare
Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength.
— The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary…
— “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
Before
After 🍕
So we got a little snow.
Herring River estuary on a rainy day.
Herring River and another forest path.
Forest paths.
This is what I’ve been thinking the past four years: New York Times
Back on the Cape.
Broccoli and sausage, before and after. 🍕
Since I’ve already cast my vote I don’t feel the need to watch or even pay attention to the debate/debacle which is taking place this evening.
Waiting impatiently for the first public release of photos from OSIRIS-REx touch-and-go asteroid “landing.”