Recent Book Activity

I "collect" UNESCO World Heritage sites, both as visits and in postcards.

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." -Christopher Morley

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
--Emily Dickinson

The apple trees were coming into bloom but no bees droned among the blossoms, so there was no pollination and there would be no fruit. --Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

The two quotes about bees are the beginning of Elizabeth Graver's The Honey Thief. I include them on my profile because I have a thing for bees.

Check out the adventures You're an Animal, Viskovitz has had! Got lost in the mail twice. It is at ray's end now, so the last person will decide what to do with it. Perhaps someday we will hear from the two that got lost...