Back in college I used to write the student paper frequently and got published more than a few times. ‘Course in the Real World, it’s a spot harder getting a letter published (especially when those letters involve the comics pages) so it was pretty exciting getting my response to an Op-Ed on Thursday in printed today’s Globe. Of course, after reading it in print I wished I’d written it better, but so it goes. The study I allude to in the letter is here.
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at Play
Walking home tonight I passed the usual traffic knot on Western Ave, just south of Central Square. The motorists there were working themselves up to the usual froth of honking, frustration venting as sound like steam in a kettle. But something happened as I listened — at some point the honking stopped and was replaced by a tap-tap on the horn. Another horn answered, tap-tap-tap. And back and forth it went, a rhythmic song played, not shouted.
Moonrise / Sunset
I haven’t even gotten around to uploading our vacation pics from Aug-Sep, but here’s some I snapped tonight while biking home from Newton. The first is taken from the Lars-Anderson Bridge over the Charles River: Moonrise over Leverett House, with crane:
The second is taken from the Western Ave Bridge, looking towards Allston:
Yes, it is the Summer Solstice
I have been in my office at 99 Chauncy St for less than a year, and in that time have come to hate the gloomy air shaft my wondow overlooks. I’m on the 5th floor of an 11-story building, so not only is the “air” in this shaft is of rather dubious quality, but the window itself barely hints at the existence of an outdoors.
The AC wasn’t working well this morning so I was sitting out in the office library. When I returned to my office a few minutes ago, I was greeted with cheery, bright, direct sunlight! I checked my watch — sure enough, it’s noon. As I write this, I can already see the light fading away from my window, but on this day, the longest of the year, my office window was in cosmic alignment.