May You Live in Interesting Times · Wednesday October 3, 2007 by Julie
We were reading Oak aloud, one of those books that link some product like cod or salt to human development. William Bryant Logan says that a century ago, the East Coast had tree-shaded villages surrounded by open fields. Then, Dutch elm disease killed the elms, road salt killed the sugar maples, and farm practices changed so that now the fields are wooded and the villages relatively treeless.
Over the weekend, we hosted a graduate student who specializes in Lingcod. We discussed how her professional future was exciting, as pretty much all ocean ecosystems are in the grip of radical change.
I read one of Mike Royko’s articles to The Spink. He watched the moon launch with an old man whose personal landscape included his mother’s friendship with Mary Todd Lincoln and who was more comfortable in a covered wagon than a car.
“Things are really changing quickly,” said The Spink, who has grown a foot in the last two years.
