The day started out with the same miserable format as the previous three, but right about noon the clouds broke—and the light was dazzling after all the gloom.

This afternoon, back to treadmills, ellipticals, and the Aquatic Center pool. Okay, yes, but not quite so nice as rolling rocks, sawing logs, and swimming in a Great Lake.

Now reading a book foisted on me by Abigail—Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines, by Paul Fleischman. Here is what I wrote to my professor friend who is in charge of social studies training in the School of Education at the U:

I’ve recently come across a great new book (2014): Eyes Wide Open: Going behind the Environmental Headlines, by Paul Fleischman. Remarkably well done, with a constant emphasis on critical thinking and making up your own mind. (Nice complement to Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit.) It’s aimed at the YA audience, but even as a somewhat sophisticated not so Young Adult I find it interesting and informative. I think it should be part of every social studies curriculum.

And here is a stem of Andropogon, or big big bluestem grass, otherwise known as turkey foot. In the Whitewater praire vast stands of it are taller than me.

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" I learn a lot from TV. Whenever someone turns it on I go into another room and read a book."

—Groucho Marx