“The thing that sullies us can also be what cleanses us.”
On Dirt, a special issue of Guernica
Image from the quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London, circa 1845. Via Flickr. Over Thanksgiving, my dad told me a story about going to see his grandparents when he was very young and they were very old. They were observant Jews who kept kosher, using separate sets of dishes for milk and meat. Custom dictated that if you made a mistake in the kosher laws, you could submerge your utensils in soil
