Sublime

Each of them knows innumerable minute, local truths.

She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make

Here, if any terrorists came flying over, they’d look down on trashed-out mine craters and blown-up mountains and say, “Keep going. This place already got taken out.” It was hard to see how September 11 was my fight.

“Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa.”

Life will cook; the seas will rise. The planet’s lungs will be ripped out. And the law will let this happen, because harm was never imminent enough.

If she dies tomorrow, she’ll still have added this one small thing to what life has come to know about itself.

From the very beginning of the world, the other species were a lifeboat for the people. Now, we must be theirs. But the stories that might guide us,

of The Art of Simple Food by Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters lined the wall behind the bar.