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No.285
June ending, a list:
The Sometimes Newsletter No.284
As of April-just-gone I will have been writing this newsletter for over ten years. This felt like an alarmingly long time, and I was scarcely able to…
No.283
May ending, a list:
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No.282
One thing that happened this week was rereading The Living Mountain, which I hadn’t opened in perhaps ten years, and which felt like a much needed…
No.281
Without any particular warning May has materialised and is now sitting in sharp, mainly green focus.
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No.280
At the present moment my brain feels much like the final few lines in the Edna St. Vincent Millay poem “Spring”—An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted…
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No.279
We’re currently experiencing a takatalvi, a ‘behind-winter’ if literally translated from the Finnish, with the temperature once again hugging…
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No.278
March ending, a list:
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No.277
February-ending-March-beginning, a list:
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Words to Love a Planet
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Everything, Beautiful
A Guide to Finding Hidden Beauty in the World
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Eating the Sun
Small Musings on a Vast Universe
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Curious Expressions from Around the World
Lost in Translation
An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
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A dispatch from the desk of New York Times and internationally-bestselling author and illustrator Ella Frances Sanders, concerned primarily with paying close attention, the relationship between beauty and the mundane, and the things we fall in love with.
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