Few viewers are conscious of what goes on behind the scenes to keep a museum’s collection not just intact but resistant to the unrelenting effects of time. But conservator and […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Nature’s Secrets
TEACAKE'S TAKE
Divinity II
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Rites of Spring
WONDER LAND
By Any Other Name
The gifts of gratitude
Attention is a form of prayer. —Simone Weil The season of gratitude is upon us. It’s plugged from every pulpit, platform, card, and commercial. It breathes down our necks as […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Relativity
WONDER LAND
The Year of the Rat
Why do we assign such menacing imagery to this critter?
CAMBRIDGE — Two days ago, while I sat on my bed talking on the phone, a rat scrambled across my bedcovers and slipped down between the mattress and the wall. […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
On Evolution
WONDER LAND
The Swan
What does it mean to try to breathe inner peace into others?
I’d just left Chinatown after reclining in a chair for hours inside a state-of-the-art dental school. Each white cubicle featured an oversized nature photo, and all the while I’d been […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Tastes Like
FEAR AND TREMBLING
Haiti, I’m Sorry
The island suffers yet another disaster, and again we witness and rage
Haiti I’m sorry We misunderstood you One day we’ll turn our heads And look inside you. —“Haiti,” David Rudder One night in January 2010, I woke to a severe trembling […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Summer
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Conservation
Juneteenth: A True Story
