July 4 – 8, 2016
What do you do when, as usual in America, people get shot? Only this time you’re first on the scene? And you’re in charge? And years afterward, you still see the scene, over and over? Craig’s friend tells stories to little kids, over and over.
Michelle writes about little kids too, but these are drawing their ideas of Nature. Their charming pictures — which you should click on so you can see the ultra-charming detail — play out the tension between civilization and Nature and we shouldn’t forget this for a minute.
Helen’s walks to work are adding up to an epic. A milkweed patch she’d been keeping her eye on for a good year was attacked by energetic and virtuous gardeners who wanted it to be a vegetable patch. The milkweed won.
Once again, Cassie calls bull honkey. When she did this before, the guy was shunned for life. This time, it’s about a TV show called Zoo and it’s such a flaming disaster that shunning would be too good for it.
Let’s say you’re preparing for a zombie or religious or social or whatever Apocalypse, and let’s say you have a pet. What do you do? Prepare to let it die? to feed it? to eat it? Rose interviews the most unusual people.