Awake in the Wild: Why sing ‘America the Beautiful,’ from your couch? Here are Mark Coleman’s tips for getting out and enjoying those for spacious skies, purple mountains and fruited plains. The Folly of the Weather Forecast: It might be sunny. It might rain. Either way, Pico Iyer won’t be checking the forecast. Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers: No celebration is without its flaws, but this is not a cause for grief explains Leonard Koren, in his piece about the beauty of imperfection.