June 2025
Books read: The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking by Leor Zmigrod When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut (translated by Adrian Nathan West) All Fours by Miranda July Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham Trails walked: Sprague Lake to Bierstadt Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park (June 11th) Loch Vale to The Loch in Rocky Mountain National Park (June 16th) Father’s Day picnic at Brainard Lake near Ward (June 19th) Beaver Creek Trail near Ward (June 24th) Song(s) of the month: The Beach Boys - God Only Knows and Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday People June Summary: Well we've reached the halfway point of this tumultuous year, 2025. Let's hope the 2nd half brings less war and destruction and hatred. My wife and I started watching a show called The Pitt, about an emergency room in Pittsburgh shortly after the pandemic. Our daughter, who was an ER nurse said it was the m...