Happily, I recently found my way to The Lives of a Cell, written by Lewis Thomas in 1974. It is a book of essays that extend the scientific observations of his Renaissance mind into the realms of music, death, language and other mysterious relationships we have with the world.
It more than lived up to its billing as "elegant and clarifying."
It is also the kick-in-the-pants I need to finally post a right-column widget listing engaging, provocative, literary nonfiction in our collection that I long to see as a requirement (opportunity!) for our high school students. The idea of reading an inspired, nuanced, visionary, and landmark nonfiction book of ideas is one that I wish were a graduation requirement for our students.
Stay tuned for that list.
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