Never Have So Many Owed So Much to So Few

Stephen Landry's Blog has the story of an RAF hero.

One of the few who saved us all.

Richard Chamberlain (aka Dr. Kildare), RIP

 

Bluesky

 Commentary magazine: James B. Meigs on "Bluesky: The Online Cone of Silence."

Maintaining the Paths. Protecting the Crops.

Every day, the jungle tries to take over. The more we keep it at bay, the happier we are.

But every single day, it keeps trying.

That's the nature of jungles.

Some Treasures are Cheap

While sorting through a shelf of books in my house, I came across two old ones I'd received from a cousin at a birthday party years ago. She'd bought them at a used bookstore, but I knew then what I know now: I will never get rid of them.

The price of a gift means so little.

[By the way, the books were Bleak House by Charles Dickens and The Poetry of Oscar Wilde. Great stuff.]

Find Something Beautiful Today

 

[Photo by Fadhil Abhimantra at Unsplash]

Zinger

"Santayana took to teaching as a swan to ping-pong."

- Joseph Epstein, Essays in Biography

A Visit to a Bank Branch

Two increasingly common features:

Very few tellers. You're supposed to be banking online, get it?

And they're getting rid of safety deposit boxes. 

The home safe business must be booming.

We've gone a long way from the "Open a savings account and get a free radio" days.

A few more years and people will be used to a lower level of personal service. 

The younger ones will not have experienced a time when there were six or seven teller windows.

I mentioned to a bank officer that they might want to consider the potential downsides of the change.

He was puzzled.

And I didn't even get a radio.

On My List

 

I really really really wanted one of these in the Sixties.

Reading and Enjoying

 

It starts with George Washington. 

I believe that Joseph Epstein is our greatest living essayist.