Finding Beauty When Things Get Ugly - No. 244

10 summer memories, links, and a Caponata recipe to take us into fall

Dahlias blooming in the garden at High Hampton in Cashiers, North Carolina.

ONE OF SUBSTACK’S MOST PROLIFIC writers is Sean Dietrich who writes a daily newsletter called Sean of the South. His August post about how we don’t have to look far to be grateful in spite of the world’s doom and gloom resonated with me.

‘’It’s hard not to believe that everything …