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No.249
There are things that happen, and then there are things that happen. There are moments in which one feels certain that they’ve gone mad, and then there…
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No.248
Two years ago I wrote of this month: “It’s November and the afternoons draw towards darkness so quickly, what else can be said about it.”
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No.247
Autumn arrives to us, the trees let go of themselves, and we all wonder how this could have happened again so soon.
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Somewhere in Southern Europe
Somewhere in Southern Europe the pink is more pink, and a man weeds his garden rows in hot sun while wearing no shirt, but still socks.
No.246
I asked if you felt as one long continuous ‘self’ before going south to warmth, while south, and upon return to the cold, and you said no, and I said ah…
No.245
The world undoes itself a million tiny times each day and there are some who work, who try so very hard, to stitch it back together, while others are…
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No.244
Not yet at the end of August and already the darkness is replacing the light in a way that unsettles. Still in the summer habit of not needing to switch…
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No.243
A sparrow’s heart beats four hundred and sixty times a minute. I don’t remember where I read this, or when, but I noted it down. In the same way that I…
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Bird Flying, I’m Walking
On empathy, liquorice, birds, and when leaves fall
No.242
The number of days in the summer with enough sun, enough late in the day, that the desire to get into the freezing river overwhelms. In the east of…
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No.241
It is past the middle of July, and there have been perhaps two or three properly warm days in the river valley so far this year. This feels strange, and…
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No.240
I’ve been considering, lately, the idea of story, of narrative, of beginning and middle and end. Considering why we cling fiercely to certain tales…
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No.239
For many years, during the month we are on the precipice of ending, I would think about, and often post on my one and only social media, this line from…
Flying Closer to The Sun
An illustrated essay
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The Sometimes Newsletter
A curation concerned with paying close attention, the relationship between beauty and the mundane, and the things which can be fallen in love with, from an internationally-bestselling author and illustrator.
My Books
Everything, Beautiful
A Guide to Finding Hidden Beauty in the World
Close Again
Eating the Sun
Small Musings on a Vast Universe
The Illustrated Book of Sayings
Curious Expressions from Around the World
Lost in Translation
An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World

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