Why?

I’m a closet archeologist. When National Geographic has an article on early humans, when PBS is digging up pottery shards and bones, I’m right in the front row. I think it is amazing what we can learn from the bones of a thousand-year-old child … Oh. A child. That means…

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It’s okay to be cracked

I read this somewhere: there was once a man who went to the river every morning to fill two water jars. One leaked, and was always half empty by the time he reached home. One day the cracked jar apologized, suggesting that the man discard it and get a better…

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