WIND – #5 in a series on Lessons from Things that make up Nature You can’t see it. it has no shape or color or physical presence. Shelley called it a destroyer and protector … and uncontrollable. Shakespeare said we should throw caution into it and ‘just do it’ (way before Nike used that phrase). Bob Dylan said the answer (to everything?) is blowing in it. Churchill said the kite blows highest…

The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson. Finished July 17, 2026; audiobook on Hoopla

This is more like a short story, but I saw that a mutual on Goodreads had just read it and the blurb sounded pretty weird and I couldn’t believe I’d never heard of it before, so I gave it a shot. It was a fun little horror/morality story with an actual weird little guy. It ended a lot more tamely than I was expecting, but it was a fun, weird little jaunt for an hour or so.