‘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 miracle of red water
Zorba, one of the world's great nuannaarpoqians, questions the soul-expanding miracle of wine. A key aspects of his vivid living is his constant questioning and fresh experience of ordinary things. Nothing jaded or stale about his engagement with what many people take...
A day in the woods
A moment when the two main characters of Bronte's less well known novel get to know each other. Shirley, newly arrived, proposes a day in the woods to Caroline, who knows the land and the calendar of its changes in minute detail, a mental map she is happy to unfold...
The meeting of winged friends
This description of a Chinese garden designed for the benefit of birds made me review our own. We have water baths, winter and summer (they need fresh water when all is frozen over), but I hadn't thought of sand baths, though I've seen them taking dust baths in...
While there is still time
Philip Larkin's simple plea for kindness feels a timely reminder that yes, while there is...
Winter was over
Until I read The Song of the Cid I thought it was just a Hollywood film...
Finding, not seeking
This confident assertion made me think about a working assumption that you have to seek...
Living a full life
What a wonderful affirmation - and invitation - to start inventing, if you haven't already....
Down to the hare-bell sea
A blazingly limpid landscape on the island of Thera, plunging down to the sea, with...
Freedom from alarms
One of the joys of leaving a job is the growing awareness that waking becomes...
To look and be wonderful
A favourite four-character phrase in Chinese is biao li ru yi meaning something like 'surface-inside-as-one',...
My kind of market
You may have noticed that I love basket-bursting, banquet-spread descriptions of food. However, while meals...
While the breaking waves…
What is your idea, experience or dream of a timeless afternoon?
A timeless afternoon is...
Joy in a whistle
A wonderful moment captured, or imagined, in the playful, cavorting, dangerous life of an otter....
Warm blood and solid bones
Zorba is one of the great Nuannaarpoqians of the world, running the gamut from Authentic...
Master of whirlpools
I loved this entrancing description of joyous and playful mastery.
Tarka is a splendid character...
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