‘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
Eyes to the light
A servant is taken advantage of once too often and swears never again to lower herself, literally or figuratively. Note the task demanded was 'on her afternoon off'. Joyce's stint as a general maid in a grocer's household was cut short only when the grocer's wife...
The dignity we seek
It's years since I noted this quote and it has recently made its way to the front of the nuannaarpoq pipeline. But only reading it again now do I see how much it resonates with the urgencies of rebalancing our relationship with the natural world around us, and with...
Otter mockery
As you may have noticed, I have a soft spot for the playfulness of otters, and a growing collection of examples soon to be gathered together in a dedicated page. In this case, the merry otter watches a human, who had been chasing him, take a tumble and a dip, and...
Finding peace
An interesting piece of aunt-like advice from Martha Gellhorn to Leonard Bernstein.  She emphasises the importance of not only finding a nugget of peace within yourself, and the conditions to...
Leonine concentration
As I get older, I have a stronger sense of needing this kind of concentration. So many dreams and projects to realise, filling more space than the (likely) time available...
Surrounded by sky
The Swiss explorer and travel writer, Ella Maillart (1903-97), spent the second half, or third age, of her adventurous life in the Alpine village of Chandolin at 2,000 metres. We...
A prodigality of marvels
A wonderful feeling to have about life or any aspect of it. I often feel it when I wonder if life will give me the time to savour and appreciate...
A record of love
Thoreau's journals have many comments on the nature of journals, of which this one is closest to my own impetus for writing one, albeit patchily: I put off writing for...
The texture of the everyday
This thoughtful reminder of the splendour of everyday happiness made its way into the nuannaarpoq pipeline long before the world we love was swept by pandemic. How many of those...
Love of the earth
If ever we needed to remember our love of the earth, it is now. I like George Eliot's hypothesis that our love of it is anchored in our childhood experience...
Because they dreamed of this place
I like that Dante's promised land mentions 'human innocence' alongside nectar in everything and spring eternal.
Innocence doesn't receive much air time, but to me it could be listed among...
Blue-bells in spring
Blue-bells, more even than roses, are the flower I associate with England. There is magic in walking under a woodland canopy among the delicate blue bobbing bells as they carpet...
Nuannaarpoq Awards – Nominee 002
Our second nominee for a Nuannaarpoq Award is:
Hoyle, a former British Consul in RhodesÂ
Parameters:Â 20th century, British, real, human, male, now living elsewhere
Nuannaarpoq...
In praise of the scruffy and marginal
I love hedgehogs and see them as an ambling, loveable, flea-scratching symbol of hope and freedom, as well as the rights of the scruffy and marginal to be scruffy and...
Dancing summer days
They are still with us, although we're far from that beautifully named, white-spumed 'maned Aegean'. Eke them out, enjoy each and every one and then bask through the winter months...
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