miscellaneous

So Writer's Almanac tells me that today is the birthday of both Madeleine L'Engle AND C.S. Lewis. I am going to start celebrating November 29.

News from Senegal

The Good: Urban Agriculture Flourishes in Dakar. Urban horticulturalists supplied 45 percent of the city's food in 2011--imagine if we could do that in maybe not New York, but say Los Angeles, which is more spread out. Apparently one of the problems with encouraging it in Dakar is the question of land ownership: Cheikh Ngane, who is the...