What I saw this week:
I saw, and read, Joseph Roth’s brilliant collection of journalism (as it should be written) about pre world war II Berlin, called What I Saw. The Radeztky March by Joseph Roth is on of the great novels of the 20th century. I had never read his journalism, though. This book reminds you that journalism can be about something, can be beautiful, can be short and still full of integrity, can be restrained and still powerful, can be true.

Here, in a way that in no way reflects the dark, careful beauty of Roth’s book, is what else I saw this week:

I saw a blue jay mobbing a preening red tailed hawk
I saw a lipstick orange smartcar
I saw red when my mother said she just didn’t know if she trusted Obama
I saw three lavender jelly-fish in the hudson river
I saw a couple sitting on their stoop with their shiny calico cat
I saw a fallen green apple in the park
I saw the world from a bicycle for the first time in 20 years

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