June 23

Tacos, which I ate as part of a book club. I’d been reading Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation for the second time in six months, and this time around the world he described felt not quite as threatening and perhaps more awe-inspiring; it’s possible that in the summer I’m more willing to ascribe benign qualities to nature. Still, it’s so impressive how he conveys the sense of walking into an abandoned ecosystem and slowly figuring out that something is wrong.

(Photo: Nature preserve, southern Maryland.)

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