Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. Unless mentioned, all links should be free of paywalls.
images: 88 Artists ‘Look Up’ at the Same Time to Create Brilliant Portraits of One Sky (Sara Barnes/Brown Paper Bag) Female artists mostly from North America but also a few from Asia and Austalia participated. I love these!
essay: Bambi, jumping frogs, Wichita Lineman, and a superb Spiced autumn cake (Mark Diacono/Mark Diacono’s Abundance) A languidly meandering essay seeped in autumn and rain in south west England, musing on taking a break after a time of happy intensity, thoughts on too cheerful music vs “music that uplifts because of a seam of melancholy (rather than syrup) running through it,” nostalgia for certain touch and a certain toy, the revisiting of an apple tree, and, as it says on the tin, a spiced autumn cake recipe. I heard “Wichita Lineman” on the radio for the first time this week in many decades and felt comforted by the melancholic overlay.
list: Books that feel like being in remote Scotland (Lucy Fuggle/tolstoy therapy) Eight books, four with capsule reviews. Also see, by the same author, Books that feel like escaping to a Scandinavian summer house and 6 books that feel like a quiet life by the mountains (inspired by living in Switzerland).
short essay: The magic is all ours: Thoughts on saving daylight (Haley Nahman/Maybe Baby) On the magic of light and shadow in ordinary places.
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