Day 1,355: recuperate, clement

Sent to recuperate in the clement African climate, he found that tying flies was a good way for an immobilised fishing fan to keep up his spirits.

How an east African country became an odd sort of global powerhouse

Artwork of the day 
Chiesa San Clemente
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Date: 1863
Style: Romanticism
Genre: interior
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Word of the day 
recuperate: to become well again after an illness; to get back your strength, health, etc.
clement: pleasant or not severe

Quote of the day
“It takes years for the land to recuperate from a fire, but even in the darkest of ashes eventually something can grow.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters