Today’s Leaf: Unidentified Ivy
Riding home from the pool today I saw this ivy growing like a flame up the trunk of a ginko (we’ll get away from ginkos shortly, I promise), so I snagged a leaf.
When I got home I checked e-mail and today’s Word a Day had arrived. Each message finishes with a random quote, and today’s couldn’t have been better:
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
-Henry Miller, novelist (1891-1980)
Now, two completely unleafy things need mentioning here. The first is that Anu Garg who runs the Word a Day list also maintains The Internet Anagram Server, one of the most powerful work-avoidance and general procrastination tools ever devised.
The second is that Henry Miller’s fifth and final wife, Hoki Tokuda, runs a bar down in the Roppongi district of Tokyo (called, unsurprisingly, The Tropic of Cancer) where, according to friends, she will happily regale you with tales of her affair with Gerald Durrel (or was it Lawrence, or both…?). Been meaning to get there for ages but have never quite managed to make it.
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Posted to The Good • 2001.11.27 (Tue) • 16:12
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