Welcome to the weekend,
Here is the best from around the Internet this week:
Prepare to be mesmerized by the work of this stunning Hawaiian photographer, whose underwater portraits look like Baroque masterpieces.
Thomas Jefferson to nephew Peter Carr: “Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice.”
I’m looking forward to reading the new H.G. Wells biography, especially after this critique on the book.
Jonathan Van Kessel’s dramatic collection of landscapes depicting animal kingdoms around the world.
Give sports a chance. In a collection of “cold links,” the author aims to persuade the non-sports fans among us to give the viewing of human competition with open eyes and curious minds.
Currently reading: The Essays of E.B. White
Enjoy your weekend.
Image: A Still Life With Roses, Peonies, Tulips, Daffodils, Carnations And Other Flowers In A Vase by
Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, 1836.
