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Prospect Cottage
”A little farther along the peninsula is Prospect Cottage, the black-tarred shack where Derek Jarman retreated in his final years. Dying of AIDS, the director transformed the house into a text, covering the walls in books and paintings and poetry. John Donnie’s poem “The Sunne Rising” is inscribed on an outside all, hand-cut from marine
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Oranges In Flight
I am reading Katherine May’s book called Enchantment. She has divided it into sections according to the elements. This is part of Air. This passage caught my eye as I have never known this about oranges. Ginger, yes. And so I looked into it and there is some information about its essential oils. One FB
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Black Prince Well
The St Nicholas Hospital was founded just outside Canterbury in 1084, and was probably the first of its kind in England, a place where people with leprosy (now called Hansen’s disease) could live together on the edges of society, in an almost monastic fashion. They paid their way by begging and saying prayers for the
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Art: Gathering on Travels
Stitch Stories is a wonderful book full of ideas, techniques, inspiration, and stories…
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The South West Coast Path, UK
”The South West Coast Path is a difficult, craggy and bloody-minded walking route that hugs the coastline between Minehead in Somerset and Poole Harbour in Dorset, taking in the seaboards of North and South Devon, and the entire perimeter of Cornwall along the way. I call it bloody-minded because it exhibits a willful refusal to
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Satan Butte, Navajo Nation
”Satan Butte has a long and storied reputation among Navajos. One legend says that there is a giant serpent that lives inside the butte and comes out from a hole at the top. This made the butte a restricted area for Navajos in the past – a time long before the Long Walk. If your
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La Letiche, Louisiana
Being a fan of cryptozoology, I was intrigued by the creature of Honey Island Swamp, Louisiana.
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New Orleans
Reading EA Hanks’ The 10 and revisiting some of the same cities. Her writing is taking me deeper into my own trip to New Orleans, which happened a few years before hers.
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Moomat Ahiko
“Breath of the ocean” in the Tongva language (Shoson). The Tongva people have lived in what we call the Greater Los Angeles Basin for thousands of years. Their ancestral home stretched over 4,000 square miles, with the sacred centre in today’s Long Beach. They explored the Pacific coast in their sewn plank canoes called ti’at.