June 2024
Books read: James by Percival Everett The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie The Ballad of the Sad Café and other stories by Carson McCullers The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks Trails walked: Wild Basin Backpack plus Thunder Lake day hike in Rocky Mountain National Park (May 31st-June 2nd) Mill Creek Basin traverse in Rocky Mountain National Park (June 6th) Lobo Peak near Taos, NM (June 13th) Prairie to Pines Triple Loop near Boulder (June 18th) Lawn and Crystal Lakes in Rocky Mountain National Park (June 25th) Song of the month: Raye - Genesis Scientist Spotlight – Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber, Synthetic Nitrogen June Summary: I guess I inadvertently "celebrated" Juneteenth this past month in two ways. One was in reading the novels James and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn back to back. James is a retelling of Huck Finn from t...