Tag: reading recommendation

People ask me all the time, ‘How are you standing up?’ I’m telling them I do know that it’s through the grace of God. … You don’t get over nothing like this. It’s an empty feeling of loss when you don’t have your puzzle complete.

Samaria Rice, in an interview in USA Today. Her son, Tamir, was killed by police at age 12. He would have been 18 on June 25 this year.  

The Interview with Samaria Rice is a companion piece to interviews with 31 young black men who are turning 18 this year, on what it is like growing up in Tamir Rice’s America. It is essential reading. 

Reading Recommendation: “On Identification,” by Helen Macdonald, in the 19 June 2015 New York Times Magazine. 

“There’s an immense intellectual pleasure involved in making identifications, and every time you learn to recognize a new species of animal or plant, the natural world becomes a more complicated and remarkable place, pulling intricate variety out of a background blur of nameless gray and green. …

Field guides made possible the joy of encountering a thing I already knew but had never seen before.”

Illustration adapted from The Peterson Field Guide to the Birds of North America , 2008. 

Reading Recommendation: “On Identification,” by Helen Macdonald, in the 19 June 2015 New York Times Magazine. 

“There’s an immense intellectual pleasure involved in making identifications, and every time you learn to recognize a new species of animal or plant, the natural world becomes a more complicated and remarkable place, pulling intricate variety out of a background blur of nameless gray and green. …

Field guides made possible the joy of encountering a thing I already knew but had never seen before.”

Illustration adapted from The Peterson Field Guide to the Birds of North America , 2008.