Virginia Sapiro
@vsapiro
Retired political scientist in NH & Boston who still scholars. Also making believe I'm a historian, farmer, cook, baker. I do love democracy, knowing stuff, looking at art, listening to music. Current research: history of higher education in the U.S.
She wants to know: she understands she tore the ligaments in her right back and that she’s not really supposed to lick where the surgery was. But does she HAVE to wear this stupid cone of despair?
I let a few of my carrots from last season flower. These are gorgeous. Different color carrots, different color flowers. Let’s see if they’ll seed and self-sew.
I’ve tried for years to get hollyhocks going and this year finally success! (Plants started last year.) Seen here with my pretty yarrow, also started from seed.
Time for me to go work on the porch. The catbird who lives in the shrubbery next to it all summer and talks to me all day is back. My work buddy. (Stock photo; not mine.)
Big Baby seems to be keeping a blankie over his head so no-one will see that he's not there. All we can see is that "The John" seems to be there and maybe the place celebrates the FARMING ARTS.
Not ready for there to be no more David Hockney. Of all his work my favorite was his series on his dogs.
"The rain is raining all around, it falls on field and tree...." The special quality today's rain takes me back to book I loved as a child that I hope I have at our other place. Rbt Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, amazing photo illustrated. The photographer was Toni Frissell.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai. (2025) A tale of Indian journeys and class/cultural difference within and outside of India, centralized on two characters whose mutual path feels like a double helix.
What We Can Know, Ian McEwan (2025). Loved it. Layers of now and a century from now. The world has utterly changed because of climate change and politics. Academic/historical sleuthing. Utterly convincing.