Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
illustrated essay: Backyard Bird Diary (Amy Tan/Paris Review). A prosaic series of essays about different birds in her yard (or on her palm), as Tan learns the ways of birds (and bird feeding).
video tour: AsiaBarong Gallery, Great Barrington, MA – Berkshires (Google Maps video). I’ve been there in person and it’s overwhelming in a great way. Navigate this video tour using your mouse or touchscreen.
long essay: The Long Haul (Lygia Navarro/SwitchYard). About her ongoing experience with Long Covid. “In 2020, we heard that the pandemic’s silver lining would be all the inequalities it had highlighted; at the dawn of 2024, it’s clear those inequalities are just as entrenched, or worse, than before. What long-haulers are now living through, social justice and disability-rights activists remind us, is the American landscape as it has always been.”
field guide to March 2024 (Vermont Center for EcoStudies). Includes snowshoe hares, early butterflies (Milbert’s Tortoiseshell, Mourning Cloak, and Eastern Comma), painted turtles, mining bees, and skunks.
essay: Stillness A year of being on the couch (Rosecran Baldwin/Meditations in an Emergency). “I’ve always thought of myself as a person of constant motion. I dislike feeling contained. … Being on the move is a way to be the shadow, not the body that casts it.”
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