greg stayed home to help take care of me today (he's been doing so, actually, all this week) and is working from the large bedroom, so i moved into the living room. as you can see, pluto is keeping me company on the bed while cricket and zuzu inhabit the window and the chair. i've been reading an immense world which deychen gave me for christmas last year. it's a book with so many amazing insights that i keep stopping and saying to chanda, "listen to how a mantis shrimp sees their world," or, "a dog's world is defined by all the myriad of things they can smell!"
here ed yong, the author, is explaining how birds see an entire new dimension of colors through their tetrachromacy (humans are trichromats).
about the bacterium wolbachia . . !
(i took this photo several weeks ago meaning to post about it) so, yes, an immense world! by ed yong. so fascinating and i highly recommend it!
i've also been watching finding ola on netflix . . an arabic show that takes place in cairo and tells the story of ola whose husband finds that he is no longer in love with her and so moves out of their home. of course they have two children with whom they have to navigate through the ensuing trials. it's very good, funny and poignant.
morgana is in madrid with harley and sent beautiful photos:
morgana liked their subway signs . .
photos of the hotel room (it was a business trip for harley) . .
the view out the window . .
and the view from the roof . .
a delicious dinner at a local restaurant just a block from the hotel . .
(and i'm writing all this several weeks later as i was too weak at the time. i had no appetite for days.)
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