King penguins and seals at Elsehul Bay in South Georgia on New Year's Day.
I've mentioned that I've been taking many more buses this year because my bad knee keeps me from walking as much as I'm used to. I took a crowded bus down Broadway on my way home from class yesterday, and though I had a book I was too tired to look at it and watched my fellow passengers instead.
And was struck, surprisingly, by the basic decency I saw. People were jostling for standing room with several large suitcases, a stroller, and one overloaded shopping cart, and maneuvering your way to the rear door to get off wasn't for the faint-hearted, but everyone was—nice. They tried to move out of the way where they could, and a blind man and a woman with a walker boarded and were immediately given seats.
It was a little bit of reassurance in these very dark times.
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