My bookshelves are beyond capacity. As the year as a Knight Science Journalism fellow comes to a close, I take short jaunts back to the Cape, carrying boxes full of paperbacks and hardcovers that encapsulate the year. Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air by David J.C. MacKay and David Archer’s The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate from Dan Schrag’s The Consequences of Energy Systems class. The hefty tome Magnum Contact Sheets, Cotton Tenants: Three Families by James Agee and Walker Evans, and the playful Seeing Things: A Kid’s Guide to Looking at Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz, all for B.D. Colen’s photojournalism class. Sophia Roosth’s new book Synthetic: How Life Got Made. [Read more…]
Home growing up and home now means inhabiting the edge dividing land and sea. We go there to eat sandwiches in the cab of the truck, sheltered from the icy wind that lifts the waters of Barnstable Harbor into whitecaps. Beyond the water, the dunes of Sandy Neck glisten white with snow, the Handy shack popping out in dark relief. Before the first bite is taken, a flash of fur to the right. A fox, tiny, on the hunt, nose to snow, a few steps, another sniff, more steps, her footprints left behind in the layer of snow.
Go with your love to the fields.
