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Conference of Birds
On feathers that breathe and illustrated Persian manuscripts
Sep 25
August 2025
No.268
In the last couple of weeks we have, several times now, heard and therefore seen geese flying overhead—this confirms the suspicion that summer is over
Aug 31
30
2
No.267
There are ways to feel, and ways to un-feel, and it occurs* to me that the internet might be, more or less, one giant experiment in un-feeling. What…
Aug 23
23
1
No.266
Many of you will be familiar with this newsletter arriving on a Saturday afternoon and may therefore be surprised to find yourself instead receiving it…
Aug 10
25
July 2025
No.265
It has been a time. It has been a time because however prepared or unprepared you feel you might be for its inevitable passing time will find you…
Jul 19
28
3
June 2025
No.264
During the course of the day (a Friday in June) I have had time to: panic mildly about everything including whether or not I love strongly enough, put…
Jun 7
18
6
May 2025
No.263
Endless, endless experiments in sensitivity and May ending, a list.
May 31
29
3
No.262
I think there isn’t time for everything and then I think there is too much anyway and then I think I can’t decide what’s worse. I think about people…
May 24
21
1
No.261
Each morning I look at at the tiny shoots of vegetable growing in earth and immediately convince myself they look no different to the day before—not…
May 3
14
April 2025
No.260
It is surprising how quickly one’s mind can move from the forced starvation of an entire population to the benefits of hedging
Apr 26
24
1
In Praise of Anything
There are many volumes which specifically aim to praise things to a dramatic literary degree, whether that be folly, shadows, slowness, idleness…
Apr 18
5
3
No.259
Fortunate enough to live in a place where I can—having scaled a hill—see natural things near-uninterrupted for several miles, the panoramic tendency of…
Apr 12
23
1
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