Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
essays: This Is Not Your Beautiful House (Tom Cox/The Villager). You can read it as one long essay (best choice) or a number of smaller ones, themed on houses but diverging in many interesting and unexpected ways — cat flaps, Grey Gardens, castles, old punk bands, ageing — that tickle my fancy. (Also available as a 26-min audio) “Was it really 80 years ago that a wealthy bloodsport-loving southern attorney divorced me by telegram from Mexico and left us alone together, haunting these rooms like living ghosts?” Read it. All.
9-min. video: Animated Score: Rhapsody In Blue w/Gershwin on piano; first recording:1924 (Stephen Malinowski/YouTube)
long essay: Inside the Dahlia Wars: Fighting over much more than flowers (Anne Helene Petersen/Culture Study). A LOT about dahlias, both the hobby and the business of growing them, selling them, admiring them, talking about them online.
research article: Someone clever once said women are not allowed POCKETS (Jan Diehm & Amber Thomas/The Pudding). “What do we want? Functional pockets. When do we want it? NOW, but really like several centuries ago. … Only 40 percent of women’s front pockets can completely fit one of the three leading smartphone brands. Less than half of women’s front pockets can fit a wallet specifically designed to fit in front pockets. And you can’t even cram an average woman’s hand beyond the knuckles into the majority of women’s front pockets.” This is something I talk about ALL THE TIME and I wear only cargo pants — which one would think are made to carry cargo.
short straight-forward essay: How Foraging Taught Me Middle-Aged Self-Acceptance: In my early forties, I was uneasy about aging. So I headed into the woods. (Megan Margulies/Outside)
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