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No.255
When living in a corner of southwest Ireland—roughly the years 2020 to 2022—there was, as there always is, an accumlation of plants within the house. By…
Feb 15
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Diminishing Powers
On anxiety, glass cloches, and the creativity which saves us
Feb 15
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No.254
A dialect term from the northern Veneto region of Italy, freschin, which is the scent of either fish or eggs left in a pan even after it has been…
Feb 1
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January 2025
No.253
Here in the north of Scotland we have been set upon by a sizeable storm, one which necessitated woodchopping in the dark this morning before the wind…
Jan 25
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No.252
Today, sharing with you a chapter from my fifth book Everything, Beautiful, one that asks questions about ‘Ancient Beauty’ because I’ve been thinking a…
Jan 11
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No.251
On the first day of the new year I watched with a camera and a receeding migraine as thirty or so friends and strangers took off their warm layers and…
Jan 4
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December 2024
On Birds and Things Being Bearable
The neighbour calls it ‘Hitchcock hour’ but I think of it as ‘the time twice a day when for a short moment absolutely everything is bearable because…
Dec 7, 2024
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November 2024
No.250
I think that noticing is in fact a kind of remembering, conscious, so it can be unnerving to suddenly realise you forgot to notice something which at…
Nov 30, 2024
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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…
Nov 16, 2024
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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.”
Nov 2, 2024
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October 2024
No.247
Autumn arrives to us, the trees let go of themselves, and we all wonder how this could have happened again so soon.
Oct 12, 2024
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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.
Oct 5, 2024
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