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| The Atlanta Aquarium is the largest aquarium in the western hemisphere. |
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| This is a hammerhead shark. We spent four hours there. |
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| The apex predators interest me the most. |
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| This is a sea dragon. |
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| Penguins swim. This place is awesome. We took in the dolphin show and the sea lion show. |
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| After the Carter Museum we walked to the Dr. Martin Luther King Junior National Park about a mile and a half away. |
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| His birthplace home needs updating. There was a QR code on the sign that let us take a virtual tour. |
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| The final resting place for him and Coretta lies across the street. |
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| Here is the church he preached at. |
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| I voted for Jimmy Carter and I'm glad I did. I think he was a great president. Today we walked to his presidential library which was not too far from our AirBnB. This is a recreation of his oval office. |
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| Jimmy had honesty and integrity. I like that. I did not know that his father was a segregationist. His mother was a nurse and took care of people regardless of the color of their skin. |
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| He worked for Habitat for Humanity, eradicating the Guinea worm in Africa, monitored elections, brokered peace agreements. I feel like I have not done much with my life compared to his and Rosalynns. |
The After Wife, written by Gigi Levangie Grazar, is a book about a character named Hannah. Hannah lives in Santa Monica and produces a television show with her pal Jay. Her other best friends are Chloe and Aimee. Hannah is 44 and married to John. They have a 3 year old daughter named Eleanor. One day John bikes to the farmers market. John does all the cooking and is writing a series of cookbooks. He does most of the childcare. On the way to the farmers market he is struck by a woman driving a black Range Rover and killed. Hannah is now a widow. Being a widow in Santa Monica is not cool. Luckily she has her "grief team" (Jay, Chloe and Aimee) to assist her. Even though this book is about grief it is pretty funny. This is not literature but I enjoyed it anyway.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of World Of Wonders: In Praise Of Fireflies, Nurse Sharks, And Other Astonishments. This is a series of essays about nature, human behavior, beauty and kinship. Aimee grew up in Kansas in a mental institution where her mother was a physician. Later they lived in Arizona where she hiked with her father. Later they lived in Ohio and New York. Married now, and with two children of her own, she lives in Mississippi and her parents are retired and living in Florida. I liked this book about nature and natural curiosities.
Tracy Kidder is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Strength In What Remains: A Journey In Remembrance and Forgiveness. The story is about Deo, an immigrant in New York City from Burundi. He escaped Burundi after a civil war and genocide. The Hutu's are killing the Tutsis and vice versa when actually no one can tell the difference between the two. In Burundi he was an intern at a hospital in a smaller city. Now he is in New York City with two hundred dollars and horrible memories and nightmares about the genocide. He knows no English and has no contacts. He can speak French. He met a guy near the customs area of the airport who interprets for him. The guy offers to let him stay at his place tonight if he can wait 3 hours until his shift if over. For a time Deo is living unhoused in Central Park. Eventually, with the help from people he meets on the street, he ends up studying at Columbia University. He gets his green card. Once he becomes a doctor he goes back to Burundi to start a clinic near where his parents now live. His life is dedicated to healing. This was a great story about a very resilient man.
I know it's July but today I picked seeds of June grass at the Nature Conservancy site of Weaver Dunes. I picked two half gallon empty m...
