Great quote from Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, authored by Barbara Demick, Beijing bureau chief of the LA Times. Now that I just finished Neuromancer and am more than halfway through The Power of Less, her book is next on my reading list.

A handful of people close to me have passed away in recent months. This poem, written in 1932 by a Baltimore florist, refreshingly offers the unescapable big picture.