Bookstore happiness

Sep 7, 20161 min read

Happiness is unexpectedly discovering a used bookstore while on a research road trip! I’m trying to curb my book-buying appetite (running out of room, plus I have a book to write) but I succumbed to getting, “The Unknown Gertrude Jekyll,” a collection of writings by the great English garden designer. From nature, she once said: one learns the “importance of . . . directness of purpose.”