Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
essay: November 2024 (David Lebovitz) . Most of this issue of his newsletter speaks to living in Paris vs. visiting Paris. “Here in Paris, among friends, we’ll often say we’re going to ‘play tourist’ when we get to do fun things around town, like go to a museum or take a boat down the Seine. If you want to ‘live like a local’ when you travel, you could stay in your room and pay bills, try to get a plumber to come on a Sunday, get woken up at 6:15am by your upstairs neighbor’s kids, or commute with a gazillion other people on the métro during rush hour, but I’d rather go to a bistro or drink Champagne on a boat slowly winding its way down the Seine.”
short article: Spiny Witch Hazel Gall (Mary Holland/Naturally Curious). Aphids and ants. I’m going to check my witch hazels!
essay: photos as a means to autonomy and desire (Lauren Dubinsky/Floricult). Lots of intriguing insights here on the benefit, joy, and refreshment of seeing what’s familiar to us through, literally, a different lens. “It occurred to me that photography and writing are the two greatest tools we have to create desire in our own lives [or, as she parses, perhaps to simply allow desire to exist]. … To find the romance in the moments we are so very familiar with. To see them again with new eyes ….”
cartoon: Boulder: Visiting my mom in Maine (Edith Zimmerman/Drawing Links). A little adventure.
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