Borrowing from Wendell Berry, it's good to encounter the peace of wild things in the garden when the world feels like it's gone mad

Oh, those late-summer dispatches from out-of-state journos vacationing in Maine -- always good to check how the name of a place is spelled, as in SPRUCE HEAD, not SPRUCEHEAD, before publishing a story about it in the NYT

With the French version of our story theconversation.com/this-isnt-ho... & after living in Maine for decades, I can't unsee the image of Trump meeting not with a Russian leader but with a Quebecois dish - food Calvin Trillin would have called "stuff-stuff-with-heavy" - of curds, fries & gravy

I'll get back to politics news in my next post, but could not resist posting this video from my trip to Denali, where we witnessed a very itchy grizzly scratching his back in a snow pocket

Enough with politics. It’s time to look at beautiful things like these exquisite heads of Little Gem lettuce

Thank god for gardens and the peace of not-so-wild-things (apologies to Wendell Berry) when the world’s going nuts

Today's prize for best headline goes to Morning Shots at The Bulwark

After blasting a text to family members about the unusual earthquake we felt along the Massachusetts coast, son-who-lives-in-the-earthquake-zone-known-as-the-State-of-Alaska sent this condescending dispatch -- our petite quake would be just a regular Tuesday out there

Note where she is - @cnn.com’s Clarissa Ward is amazing in her ability to get the story where it’s happening

A concise argument for the existence of editors