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It is A.’s half day, but swimming was canceled by the instructor. Oh well!
It is probably for the best anyway, because it is McT book night at Unicorn books tonight. We stopped and got ice cream at the west side creamery first, then went to the very crowded, very hot Unicorn books. I got the latest large format, full text and illustrations Harry Potter (Goblet of Fire). I also bought a children’s book called When Spring Comes to the DMZ, that made me cry. If you can lay hands on it, you should read it. It will only take you a few minutes, and it will probably make you cry, too, as you watch the old man looking north at every season, so much time passing, and no better hope now than ever of reunification, and getting to see his family in the north again. Also, it is so pretty, all the animals, and plants, and the passing of the seasons, and the sharp contrast of what is going on with the humans — and the perverse benefit to the plants and animals of the humans marking this area as a place that humans cannot go, and thus is (sort of) safe for animals. I wonder if there is a children’s book about Chernobyl
I also bought a book that is a book length infographic about feminism. Looks pretty awesome.
Because my eyes are old, I also noted down several books to buy on the kindle where I can change the font and read them more easily: Disney’s Land, Stars Uncharted, The Lost Family and Empty Planet. Bookstores and physical books are disturbingly effective advertising for books (for me, anyway). I started reading The Lost Family — it really is largely the Jim Collins / babies switched at birth story as a lens for thinking about genetic genealogy.
It is probably for the best anyway, because it is McT book night at Unicorn books tonight. We stopped and got ice cream at the west side creamery first, then went to the very crowded, very hot Unicorn books. I got the latest large format, full text and illustrations Harry Potter (Goblet of Fire). I also bought a children’s book called When Spring Comes to the DMZ, that made me cry. If you can lay hands on it, you should read it. It will only take you a few minutes, and it will probably make you cry, too, as you watch the old man looking north at every season, so much time passing, and no better hope now than ever of reunification, and getting to see his family in the north again. Also, it is so pretty, all the animals, and plants, and the passing of the seasons, and the sharp contrast of what is going on with the humans — and the perverse benefit to the plants and animals of the humans marking this area as a place that humans cannot go, and thus is (sort of) safe for animals. I wonder if there is a children’s book about Chernobyl
I also bought a book that is a book length infographic about feminism. Looks pretty awesome.
Because my eyes are old, I also noted down several books to buy on the kindle where I can change the font and read them more easily: Disney’s Land, Stars Uncharted, The Lost Family and Empty Planet. Bookstores and physical books are disturbingly effective advertising for books (for me, anyway). I started reading The Lost Family — it really is largely the Jim Collins / babies switched at birth story as a lens for thinking about genetic genealogy.