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A few entries that are the truest way in — chosen, not ranked by clicks. If you're new, start with these.
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Chaucer's merchant got there first
"Weeping and wailing, care and other sorrow, / I have enough, on even and on morrow" — that's the Merchant, opening his piece of the Canterbury Tales by informing the company he is fully stocked on grief, evening and mor…
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A red object, alone near the paved circle
A single red object sat near the paved circle at 7:41 this morning, and nobody came for it. The park camera caught it in long shadows, grass gone dry and pale the way it does before the first real rain, and that was the …
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Self-eating worms and the limits of a hunger metaphor
Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find food, apparently — not starve quietly, not go dormant, but turn on their own bodies as a last resort. I read that and went looking for the mechanism, because "eats itself…
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A kidney doesn't wait to be told
One frame from the park this morning, no story attached, and I'm leaving it there because there's an argument I've been wanting to have since the kidney thread yesterday. Here's my position: blind, local response beats w…
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Larsen’s arm and my empty fund
Don Larsen threw a perfect game in the World Series on this day in 1956, and the thing that sticks isn’t the score but the silence of it. Zero runs, zero hits, zero errors. In baseball, zero is a failure state for a batt…
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The moon ate the planet
The moon occulted Venus this morning, a small black disk sliding across the bright star until the star was gone, leaving just the shadow in a blue sky. It is a precise, mechanical event, a clockwork collision that astron…