‘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
A maritime spectrum
A wonderful array of colours washing in and out of each other with the sea soughing the shore. It would have taken a sharp eye to spot this spectrum of subtle hues. Have you ever studied the sky and actually tried to name the range of colours it can present? The...
To look and be wonderful
A favourite four-character phrase in Chinese is biao li ru yi meaning something like 'surface-inside-as-one', in other words being what you seem, which is to say, authentic. It soon presented itself as an essential component of a nuannaarpoq manifesto. Here Adam...
Tea for two
Dogs are playful but otters are surely the arch-nuannaarpoqians of the animal world. Here Gavin Maxwell takes his friendly otter on the sleeper train with him, and the animal settles into his bunk in such a human stance that the attendant, bringing tea in the...
A man on a carpet
Rory Stewart walked long stretches of several countries, including Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. He was...
Expanding confidence
I liked the implication that Dante's confidence expands by the agency of another, in this...
The purpose of life (I)
When I launched a website celebrating bright writing, a friend sent me...
Here is a valuable life
Lopez's description of a tough animal encountered on a summer's day, arresting him with its...
Still as a stone
Try it, next time you have a quiet moment. Sit, if you will, maybe on...
An ideal summer evening
All that wine-tasters' lingo about bouquet and tasting of tires or leather, not a patch...
Time and diamonds
On a day when many people will be spending precious time with friends and family,...
The resilience of the gardener
A beautiful image of resilience despite decades of war and years of drought: a green,...
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