Kolbert also good at communicating the concept of the various 14 wedges that must work in concert to make any kind of meaningful dent in carbon emissions.
Read moreBook: Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Compelling, though takes a different tack than Boiling Point. Less constructive on solutions. Writing is serviceable but a bit gray–I don’t know how many times Kolbert introduces a character with a summary description of merely his/her eye and hair color. Probably the most useful, and which Gelbspan didn’t really characterize so succinctly, was the idea…
Read moreHart’s questions
For the last month or so, Hart points ALOT and says “ISH?” “IZ?” “IZ DAT?” a lot, as well as his old standby “DI-POO”
Read moreHart walks for real
Hart started walking, cautiously, but definitively, while we were up at Camp about 2 weeks ago. The rugged variety of terrains up there were so challenging that I think they gave him a lot to work with. Upon returning to Brooklyn he’s toddling around on two feet probably more than crawling and grabbing onto things…
Read moreBrain Rental
poem or something about the fact that you’re given a body and a brain for only a little amount of time before it all degrades. about being tasked with something to do with them. how do you know what’s best? the indeterminacy of Wm. James….
Read morep.s. on Monk
wife is not nor ever has been Judith, but Nena–no idea where that wrong info came from…
Read moreThe Monk in the Guideboat
Saturday September 2, 2006, 11:15am. Was sitting by the boathouse at the Lower Lake somehow feeling uncharacteristically at ease with the world and hopeful, and then the bus rolled in and onto the porch stepped Robert Thurman. I recognized him inside of about 5 seconds. We exhanged hellos. It got me fairly buzzing with excitement,…
Read moresome Rilke I’d forgot
I remember reading the Duino Elegies in the chill of October around Wichita TX just off the set of the documentary we were shooting. Trying to steal away and focus and let this be a part of me, as it turned out it was, really without my trying, throughout my 20s..I was then 26. Every…
Read moreHart moos in no uncertain terms!
At the table on Sunday August 6, 2006 (I believe it was)–Hart made mooing sounds when we referred to the cow on his Sigg Bottle, repeatedly. Got a kick out of it too.
Read moreHart walks, a little
On Saturday August 5 2006 I was playing with Hart at the Outdoors Festival at Lincoln Center, and he walked a few baby steps toward me by himself. Then he repeated the game over and over. Just baby shuffling steps, then launching into my arms. Such a cutie.
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