on Red and Yellow Crab. They have five pairs of legs. They are exceedingly hard to catch. They seem to be able to run in any of four directions. Because of their rapid reaction time, they appear to read the mind of their hunter. They escape the long-handled net, anticipating from what direction it is coming. If you walk slowly, they move slowly ahead of you in droves. If you hurry, they hurry. When you plunge at them, they seem to disappear in a puff of blue smoke—at any rate, they disappear. It is impossible to creep up on them. [link]
on Red and Yellow Crab. It's good to hear you're such an ardent fan of these amazing Sally Lightfoot crustaceans! [link]
on Havasupai Falls. I hiked six hours to get to these waterfalls. They washed my mind of its trivial worries and clutter. I walked away feeling free. [link]
on Harmony Smile Courage. The Chinese roots of Japanese calligraphy go back to the twenty-eighth century BCE, to a time when pictographs were inscribed on bone for religious purposes. When this writing developed into an instrument of administration for the state, the need for a uniform script was felt and Li Si, prime minister in the Chinese dynasty of Qin, standardized a script and its way of being written. He sanctioned a form of script based on squares of uniform size into which all characters could be written from eight strokes. He also devised rules of composition where horizontal strokes are written first and characters are composed starting from top to bottom, left to right. [link]