"Moss grows where nothing else can grow." This is a novel about a female scientist, Alma Whittaker, who never got recognition for her work. Born in 1800 to a wealthy familiy in Philadelphia, immigrants from England and Holland, early in her childhood she started to be interested in botany and became a selftaught explorer of nature and a scientist. She even published some books about her findings and ideas.For over 50 years she basically never left her home. Its gardens were so huge, she found enough to explore there and ultimately specialized in mosses, which suited her well. Because moss changes so slowly, nothing ever seems to happen. Alma Whittaker never was one to search the stagelight. She wasn't particularly beautiful and never was loved by a man. She did marry though, another botanist, specialized in orchids, a gifted artist, who painted the most beautiful pictures of orchids, and, it turned out later, also of a nude young man on Tahiti. The marriage never happ...
Lobedentag. Das war als, auch, Programm gemeint, für ihr ganzes Leben. Lobe den Tag, verdammt nochmal. Und zwar nicht erst am Abend, sondern ständig, zu jeder vollen und halben Stunde. Finde Gründe, den Tag zu loben und höre damit nie wieder auf. Create random acts of kindness and closeness, zu jeder vollen und halben Stunde. Lass das die Art sein, wie Du den Tag lobst. Der Blog als Reisebeschreibung Verschlüsselt natürlich.