What’s It Worth to You?
Nothing shifts my perspective quite like travel. I’m writing this on my phone from downtown Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, where among other wonders (dedicated bicycle lanes, poutine, friend and colleague Adam Haigler) I am surrounded by lilacs and tulips. More about the flowers in a moment. In Satire VI, the Roman poet Juvenal (the same writer who gave us, “Who watches the watchmen?”) describes a woman worthy of marriage as rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima c...
