‘I really like it. It looks beautiful, the colours are lush and it’s a refreshing perspective on the world. I love the idea of excellent dates engaging with Pliny’s figs and mushrooms, your thought provoking note on innocence, and the concept of the songs of men deep in the heart of grape buds’ – Nicki
The habits of small birds
I'm with Gorky on this one, and spend plentiful moments watching the birds in the garden. Their cheeriness and resilience even on blastingly cold winter days never ceases to impress me. Mainly, we have blackbirds, coal- and blue-tits, a feisty robin, and perky...
Intoxicating Ithaca
Golding took several decades to realize his dream of visiting Ithaca, and a few months to make his own odyssean journey there by way of Troy. Many of his descriptions of this and other Greek islands are intoxicating in their brightness and warmth, particularly as one...
Life surprises
An impressively positive assertion coming from someone who both witnessed and directly suffered from the 'seething layer of bestial refuse' of which humans are capable. Gorky's childhood memoir is a testimony to emotional and physical resilience in the face of...
Alive and alone, alone and alive
Laurie Lee captures a moment of being fully alive and fully alone, during his long,...
Tea for two
Dogs are playful but otters are surely the arch-nuannaarpoqians of...
A Samaritan at Salisbury
This account of the 17th century English clergyman and poet, George Herbert, stopping on his...
Of perfect summer mornings
Being a madrugadista, I love descriptions of the magic hours of daylight before the world...
The lilt of desire
What an eloquent depiction of a perfect moment, suspended in the lilt of its desire....
Of sleep, sky and an infinite future
From Seethaler's subtle, sensitive and slender novel on a whole life (you can interpret the...
Lightening hours
Isn't this a signal of perfect companionship, whether as friends, family or lovers? That hours...
Not now, but soon
One of the sweetest sounds of spring is a blossom-bursting tree humming with a hundred...
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