Friday, June 22, 2018
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When I wrote last week about watching fireflies flicker in Lafayette Park, I thought I was having a special experience. I was mistaken. Fireflies are all over the place in this city.
First I started seeing them in other parks, and I thought, “Wow! That’s really cool.”
Then I went walking around GW’s campus at dusk, and saw tons of fireflies on the thin strips of grass and mulch running next to the sidewalks. It felt very mundane, and seeing fireflies hovering a few feet above dirt patches sort of reminded me that they’re just bugs with glowsticks in their abdomen.
To be fair, they were still pretty cool.
Other recent sightings: Barack Obama’s official presidential portrait, a really freaking long escalator, the back side of the Lincoln Memorial, and a turtle in the grass by the American Center for Physics.
Nathan Foster